Adama

[ ad-uh-muh ]

noun

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How to use Adama in a sentence

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 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
Certainly the word adamas, without ceasing to be applied to the diamond, also designated the loadstone.
On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth | William Gilbert of Colchester
This was a material invented by Mr. Leoni, and named by him "adamas."
Gas Burners | Owen Merriman

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