Adamantine

The holy grail of minerals, raw adamantine is as difficult and hazardous to work with as ot is precious.

Among the rarest and most precious natural resources on Prismaria. Adamantine can be found deep underground in sheets of fine, fibrous crystals akin to minerals like asbestos.
The small, fibrous adamantine strands are exceedingly difficult to work with. The minute crystal fibers must be painstakingly woven together by hand into thin sheets, before being baked at extreme temperatures and pressures until the fibers fuse together to form a paper thin "wafer". Wafers can then be laminated together in the rough shape of a desired object, and again baked under extreme temperatures and pressures until the wafers fuse into a single solid object. These objects are then be ground down into their final desired shape.
Adamantine crystals are extremely hard, rating above even diamond on quantitative hardness scales. This makes it a stiff and brittle material, and undergoes very little plastic or elastic deformation. However, adamantine can withstand an abnormally high amount of force before experiencing a brittle failure. Cracks and fractures propagate through adamantine crystals at supersonic speeds, and the shock causes the crystal to detonate into a cloud of jagged shrapnel and fine, sharp edged dust.
Mining raw adamantine is a hazardous task. Many of the adamantine crystals occur as very small and fine fibers, which are fine enough to become airborne dust. Fine adamantine dust is said to have a sharp, irritating odor, caused by the extremely hard and sharp airborne dust abrading the soft tissues in the nose and greater respiratory system. Large quantities of airborne dust is an extremely dangerous hazard in the confines of an adamantine mine shaft.

Type

Ore/Mineral

Rarity

Rare

Odor

Sharp, irritating

Taste

Tasteless

Color

Bright cyan

Boiling / Condensation Point

Approx 10,000 Kelvin

Melting / Freezing Point

No known liquid phase

Related Locations

• Prismaria