obsidian

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At 20F they might as well be carved obsidian.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

“All is fair where you wear the crown,” snipes Gal Gadot’s evil queen, who wears slinky ballgowns made of obsidian shards that clatter and clank with every step.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025

The shards, or clasts, have a glassy luster, making them look a lot like obsidian, a glass formed from lava when it cools very quickly.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2025

One gem is thought to be a rare, 2nd Century head of the Greek hero Hercules made from obsidian, a type of volcanic glass.

From BBC • May 27, 2024

The knives were old things: the hilts were made of bone, while the blades were chipped, volcanic glass, black as jet, with white snowflake-shapes frozen forever into the obsidian.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman