Adama

[ ad-uh-muh ]

/ ˈæd ə mə /

the Douay Bible name of Admah.

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Lastly, others are oblong, and appear to me to be the Adamas hexadrus tabellatus of Wallerius.
The History of the Revolutions of Portugal|Abb Vertot
Later Roman authors mentioned various rivers in India as yielding the Adamas among their sands.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4|Various
The name Diamond comes from the Greek adamas, which means unconquerable.
Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 4 [September 1902]|Various
The alleged magical powers of the magnet are recited in Caput I., Adamas.
On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth|William Gilbert of Colchester

But it seems to be less known that adamas also at first denoted steel.
A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume II (of 2)|Johann Beckman