obsidianiten.
/əbˈsɪdɪənʌɪt/, U.S. /əbˈsɪdiəˌnaɪt/, /ɑbˈsɪdiəˌnaɪt/ Geology. Now rare.
= tektite n.
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1898 R. H. Walcott in Proc. Royal Soc. Victoria 11 23 As long as this uncertainty exists, some other name would be more appropriate, and I suggest and will refer to them in this paper as ‘obsidianites’.
1909 Geol. Mag. 6 411 Occurrences of the related ‘obsidianites’ (referred to by Professor Weinschenk as Billitonite and Australite) in the Malay Peninsula.
1933 Nature 28 Jan. 117/1 Small, curiously shaped pieces of..glass have long been known from certain regions, and have been called moldavites from the Moldau River in Bohemia..; australites or obsidianites from Australia; [etc.].
1963 J. A. O'Keefe Tektites i. 1 Earlier writers referred to tektites as obsidianites.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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