volcanic glass
a natural glass produced when molten lava cools very rapidly; obsidian.
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Dragonglass: The name accorded to volcanic glass or obsidian.
Women cut themselves with sharp sea-shells or flakes of volcanic glass till the blood ran down.
The Long White Cloud | William Pember ReevesThe southern end is formed of volcanic glass, or obsidian, as true a glass as any artificially produced.
My Native Land | James CoxHe had lain five of his best arrows, tipped with points of volcanic glass, side by side in the snow.
Johnny Longbow | Roy J. SnellWe have here found our first specimens of petrifactions and obsidian, or volcanic glass.
The Discovery of Yellowstone Park | Nathaniel Pitt Langford
The walls glistened with the sparkling smoothness of volcanic glass.
Astounding Stories, April, 1931 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for volcanic glass
any of several glassy volcanic igneous rocks, such as obsidian and pitchstone
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Scientific definitions for volcanic glass
Natural glass produced by the cooling of molten lava too quickly to permit crystallization. Obsidian is a type of volcanic glass.
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