spinel

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That would make it corundum; neither beryl nor spinel is that hard.

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a hard glassy mineral consisting of an oxide of magnesium and aluminum; occurs in various colors that are used as gemstones

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noun

a hard glassy mineral consisting of an oxide of magnesium and aluminum; occurs in various colors that are used as gemstones

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noun

a hard glassy mineral consisting of an oxide of magnesium and aluminum; occurs in various colors that are used as gemstones

Example sentences

That would make it corundum; neither beryl nor spinel is that hard.

The world has slowly become spineless, and when someone like Josh Hwu shows a spine and stands up for what's right a rather large fraction of fellow programmers jump on him.

It is four times harder than fused silica glass, 85% harder than sapphire and 15% harder than magnesium aluminate spinel.

Those who try to take away from his accomplishment by either convincing him that it would be "smarter" to be spineless or that somehow it's wrong to have a spine, are even more despicable than Josh's abusive ex-boss.

Moissanite is only marginally softer than diamond and cubic zirconia is comparable in hardness to topaz, emerald and spinel.

I’m on my phone and it just seems to cut off after this paragraph with no “Read More” thing.“The researchers settled on magnesium scandium selenide spinel, which has an ion mobility comparable to electrolytes found in lithium ion batteries.

> Transparent aluminum, also known as aluminum oxynitride, is a transparent polycrystalline ceramic with a cubic spinel crystal structure made of nitrogen, oxygen and aluminum.