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発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˌæ.dəˈmæn.tɪ.əm/
• ハイフネーション: ada‧mant‧i‧um

名詞

adamantium (uncountable)

1. (fiction, also attributive) A fictional metal which is indestructible or nearly so.

   Synonyms: adamantine, adamantite

   • 1941 June, Malcolm Jameson, “Devil's Powder”, in Astounding Science-Fiction‎, volume 27, number 4, Street & Smith:

     It was a bullet. It was a small slug of adamantium, the toughest and hardest of all metals, crammed to capacity with the terrific explosive feroxite and would burst instantly on any reasonable heavy impact.

   • 1969 July, Roy Thomas, “Betrayal”, in Avengers, volume 1, number 66, Marvel Comics:

     It's imperative that these experiments be concluded with haste! The military must know the potential of this new adamantium at once! Even the President is standing by!

     The first use in a Marvel Comics work.

   • 2004, Neal Asher, Gridlinked, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 324:

     We knew the egg was adamantium. Not much else could have been learnt.

派生語

• adamantine (noun) (possibly)

参考

• (imaginary desirably hard material): unobtainium

Further reading

• adamantium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia