a. Obs. [f. CORUNDUM + -IC.] Of the hardness of corundum.

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1811.  Pinkerton, Petral., Introd. 20. To express the relative hardness of other substances, by the following terms: Cretic, Gypsic, Marmoric, Basaltic, Felsparic, Crystalic, Corundic.

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