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OBSIDIAN (OBSD) Idea! by Fromanotherplanet

Fromanotherplanet
Fromanotherplanet
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28th Jun 2013
1st Aug 2013
Ideas for a new element! Obsidian!
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Comments

  • Kentch
    Kentch     29th Jun 2013
    sorry for my hard words,i just cant accept this work
  • Complexeption
    Complexeption     29th Jun 2013
    It's basically just a strong glass. It's pointless being on TPT.
  • phoenixsilverbird
    phoenixsilverbird     29th Jun 2013
    Why do you NEED obsidian?
  • Reshiram147
    Reshiram147     29th Jun 2013
    Obsidian is a real material, it's just Mojang used it in Minecraft. There is a lot of obsidian necklace!
  • xetalim
    xetalim     29th Jun 2013
    n0pe........ There wont be obsidian, again a stupid minecraft suggestion.
  • pds3-14
    pds3-14     29th Jun 2013
    Also, to whoever suggested it break down in water, this happens on a time scale of many millenia, not minutes or seconds. And it turns into a stony material. Also, I would find it odd that something that is nearly acid-proof would not be nearly water-proof.
  • pds3-14
    pds3-14     29th Jun 2013
    Also, Obsidian is not only like quartz and glass, it is 70% SiO2 by mass, meaning it is 70% the same thing.
  • pds3-14
    pds3-14     29th Jun 2013
    Also, remember that obsidian forms from stony ingredients, if you get metals to do this quick-freezing, you will get a metallic glass, which is bouncier, arguably harder, and much stronger to impacts than regular steels. If you do this to water, you get one of several really odd denser (not very floaty) forms of ice (at atmospheric pressure, the water has to go from 0 to -137 C in a few milliseconds)
  • pds3-14
    pds3-14     29th Jun 2013
    Yeah, Obsidian forms when certain types of lava are quick-frozen sufficiently fast that they fail to crystalize. They could probably form in a vacuum or near-vacuum if a properly built space radiator was used to cool them.
  • pds3-14
    pds3-14     29th Jun 2013
    @-Tra-Ranger: have you ever actually been to an obsidian flow? There is stone and dark glass, the dark glass stuff is obsidian, it shatters, it is semi-translucent, and it is way more scratch-resistant than stone and generates extremely sharp blade-like gravel. I have cut myself on obsidian while trying to cut a bandage using obsidian for someone who cut themselves on obsidian.