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ADAMANT (from Gr. aba,uas, untameable)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 174 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADAMANT (from Gr.
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aba,uas, untameable)  , the
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modern
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diamond (q.v.), but also a name given to any very hard substance . The
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Greek word is used by
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Homer as a
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personal epithet, and by
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Hesiod for the hard
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metal in
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armour, while
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Theophrastus applies it to the hardest crystal . By an etymological confusion with the
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Lat. adamare, to have an attraction for, it also came to be associated with the loadstone; but since the
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term was displaced by " diamond " it has had only a figurative and poetical use .

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