Definitionn. an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing
Last update: September 2, 2015
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Carbonado or " black diamond," found in Bahia (also recently in Minas Geraes), is a black material with a minutely crystalline structure somewhat porous, opaque, resembling charcoal in appearance, devoid of cleavage, rather harder than diamond, but of less specific gravity; it sometimes displays a rude cubic crystalline form. [Please select]
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No man in England durst say so much--I would flay him, carbonado him. [Please select]
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Sir, it's the same with most men that have been carbonadoed, as they call it, in the tropic seas. [Please select]
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