Corundum is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 153 anagrams from letters in corundum (cdmnoruu).
1720-30; Tamil kuruntam; akin to Sanskrit kuruvinda ruby
The color of corundum is usually brown, but it varies greatly.
There are indications of sapphires and other forms of corundum.
The proportion of corundum in this emery is said to vary from 37 to 57%.
Well, the sapphire in all its beautiful tints is only a variety of corundum, colored by metallic oxide.
Quartz ought to exist in a state of hydrate, and Wavellite, not corundum, ought to be the state of alumina in granite.
To polish diamonds they make use of the powder of adamantine spar, or the corundum stone.
corundum is the hardest substance known, next to the diamond.
Pliny says, corundum was used in the form of a splinter fixed in an iron style.
The stones have been rubbed into shape apparently by corundum.
The corundum burr in McTeague's engine hummed in a prolonged monotone.