Its luster is adamantine, resinous to submetallic for high iron varieties.

Its refractive index is high at 2. 15 – 2. 18 ( compared to 2. 42 for diamonds ) and its luster is adamantine.

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Virgil describes Tartarus as having a screeching gate protected by columns of solid adamantine ( Aeneid book VI ).

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The company's logo is a green dragon coiled around the top of a brewer's copper kettle.

The Greyhawk Campaign supplement ( 1975 ) added the copper dragon, brass dragon, bronze dragon, and silver dragon, along with the Platinum Dragon ( Bahamut ) and the Chromatic Dragon ( Tiamat ).

The five chaotic-aligned dragon types from the 1974 boxed set, as well as the gold dragon and the four new dragon types from the Greyhawk supplement ( the copper dragon, brass dragon, bronze dragon, and silver dragon ) appeared in first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the original Monster Manual ( 1977 ), along with Bahamut and Tiamat.

The ten dragon types were given pseudoscientific names as follows: black ( draco causticus sputem ), blue ( draco electricus ), brass ( draco impudentus gallus ), bronze ( draco gerus bronzo ), copper ( draco comes stabuli ), gold ( draco orientalus sino dux ), green ( draco chlorinous nauseous respiratorus ), red ( draco conglagratia horriblus ), silver ( draco nobilis argentum ), and white ( draco rigidus frigidus ).

The black dragon, blue dragon, brass dragon, bronze dragon, copper dragon, gold dragon, green dragon, red dragon, silver dragon, and white dragon appeared in second edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the Monstrous Compendium Volume One ( 1989 ).

The chromatic dragons ( black dragon, blue dragon, green dragon, red dragon, and white dragon ), the gem dragons ( amethyst dragon, crystal dragon, emerald dragon, sapphire dragon, and topaz dragon ), metallic dragons ( brass dragon, bronze dragon, copper dragon, gold dragon, and silver dragon ), brown dragon, cloud dragon, deep dragon, mercury dragon, mist dragon, shadow dragon, steel dragon, and yellow dragon appeared in the Monstrous Manual ( 1993 ).

* Kin-Kikokuryū （ 金輝黒竜, literally " gold sparkle black dragon " or " gold glitter black dragon "） is a metallic-skinned version of the Kumonryu with a Kohaku-style hi pattern developed by Mr. Seiki Igarashi of Ojiya City.

Some crowns also appear to have a semi-circular platform for additional ornaments attached to the lower front edge of the crown ( on two of the crowns of Menelik II these platforms each support a small gold statuette of St. George fighting the dragon ).

The typical dragon protects a cavern or castle filled with gold and treasure and is often associated with a great hero who tries to slay it.

This game follows a dragonrider as he Searches for young women to be candidates for Impressing a new gold dragon, and battles the " bad guys " on an adventure across Pern.

The Dragons are portrayed as very large creatures ; the largest described in the series, the gold queen dragon Ramoth, was described as being about forty-five feet ( as large as the largest Tyrannosaurus rex ever found ) or thirteen and one half meters ( as large as a jet plane – dragon size is an ongoing debate among fans ) in length.

If the Weyrwoman dies, or if her dragon ceases to mate due to old age or serious injury, the rider of the next gold to rise to mate will take the position.

The first gold dragon to rise to mate after the previous Weyrwoman's gold dragon has died or ceased to mate becomes Weyrwoman ; the rider of the bronze dragon that catches that dragon becomes Weyrleader.

There is no way to remove a bad Weyrwoman and the only way to replace a Weyrleader is for a different bronze to fly the Weyrwoman's gold dragon.

Often when the golds are assigned to the Weyr they assign only a single gold at first, to insure the chosen leadership, or they wait until the chosen goldrider's dragon is about to rise to mate to assign golds to the new Weyr.

The arms show a gold dragon on a red background.

Airport, Astralia ( female ), Astro, Baby, Banner, Baseball, Bob, CB, Commander, Copter, Diogene, Drill, Frigo ( snowman ), Galaxo, Golf, Hockey, Jet, Jockey, Jog, Junior, Kick, Mechanic, Perfido, Potamus ( dragon ), Pyramido, Quick, Racing, Robo ( gold robot ), Scout, Ski, Space, Surf, Tennis

* In Dungeons & Dragons, the gold dragon is one of the metallic dragons.

Everybody except Hildegard, who watches over Can and its work like the dragon over the gold of the Nibelungen and doesn ’ t allow forgetting .”

The banished dragon returns, and makes itself king of Ankh-Morpork ( keeping the head of the Elucidated Brethren as its mouthpiece ) and demands that the people of Ankh-Morpork bring it gold and regular virgin sacrifices.

The blood of the dragon in Beowulf has acidic qualities, allowing it to seep through iron.

Grandma Wang arrived with an iron chain and the dragon was secured in the pool below the Fulonguan Temple freeing the region from floods.

The loading bay was turned into a lake around which the developers installed around 200 studio workshops above the ground floor-plus on the ground floor a café, meeting rooms, dance studios, holistic therapy rooms, art display cases in the foyer and a larger gallery space called " The Gallery " at the rear, a record and clothes shop, sculpture ( a huge iron dragon crawls up the exterior of the Medicine Bar ), and fountains within a central pool area which is sometimes emptied to allow for dance music events.

* Dr. Steel – He came with a steel right hand and an iron pipe, and a big dragon tattoo on his chest.

Of the 50 kinds of pieces, 21 promote to gold, 26 promote to new pieces ( though some move like starting pieces, e. g. the free cat moves like a bishop, the free iron & gopher like a reverse chariot ); and 3 do not promote ( free king, dragon king, and dragon horse ).

The game contained clues to a real silver dragon hidden somewhere in the U. S. The 31 troy oz.

Perhaps the distinctions between dragons of western origin and Chinese dragons are arbitrary, since the later Roman dragon was certainly of Iranian origin: in the Roman Empire, where each military cohort had a particular identifying signum, ( military standard ), after the Parthian and Dacian Wars of Trajan in the east, the Dacian Draco military standard entered the Legion with the Cohors Sarmatarum and Cohors Dacorum ( Sarmatian and Dacian cohorts )— a large dragon fixed to the end of a lance, with large gaping jaws of silver and with the rest of the body formed of colored silk.

The arms show a silver dragon on a red background.

Before he died, the Bishop recited his last words as a prophecy and founded the last legion of Britain, entrusting them with their standard ; a silver dragon with a purple tail.

When Shrek won, Shrek rubbed Donkey on the head just like he did in the movie when Donkey's wife dragon appeared above him and Shrek to get to Fiona's wedding in time.

The dragon in the Qing Dynasty appeared on national flags.

And, in a story which appeared in Uncle Scrooge entitled " The Golden Fleecing " the ducklings looked up the question, how to put a dragon to sleep, and found the answer, Pull the wool over his eyes.

Also that same year, he appeared as Ulrich of Craggenmoor, the aging sorcerer who takes on an ancient dragon in the fantasy epic Dragonslayer.

However, late one night, the spirit of Qu Yuan appeared before his friends ( that is, he resurrected from the dead ) and told them that the rice meant for him was being intercepted by a huge river dragon.

Then S Silvester put himself to prayer, and S. Peter appeared to him and said: " Go surely to the dragon and the two priests that be with thee take in thy company, and when thou shalt come to him thou shalt say to him in this manner: Our Lord Jesu Christ which was born of the Virgin Mary, crucified, buried and arose, and now sitteth on the right side of the Father, this is he that shall come to deem and judge the living and the dead, I commend thee Sathanas that thou abide him in this place till he come.

Wolfram Eberhard ( 1968: 243 ) notes, " When the dragon star appeared in the sky it was customary to make a sacrifice supplicating for rain ," and this springtime dragon festival occurs on the 2nd day of the 2nd month.

Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads.

After enjoying over a decade of peace on Wonder Land following the defeat of the evil King by Tom-Tom, later bestowed the title " Wonder Boy ", a fire-breathing dragon called the MEKA dragon appeared ; he and his minions conquered Wonder Land, turning it into " Monster Land ".

Then, one day, a fire-breathing dragon called the " MEKA dragon " appeared and terrorized the land.

Five chaotic-aligned dragons ( white dragon, black dragon, green dragon, blue dragon, and red dragon ), and the golden dragon first appeared in the original Dungeons & Dragons " white box " set ( 1974 ).

These six appeared along with the gemstone dragons ( crystal dragon, onyx dragon, jade dragon, sapphire dragon, ruby dragon and amber dragon ), and the dragon rulers ( Pearl ( the Moon Dragon ), Ruler of all Chaotic Dragons ; Diamond ( the Star Dragon ), Ruler of all Lawful Dragons ; Opal ( the Sun Dragon ), Ruler of all Neutral Dragons ; and the Great One, Ruler of All Dragonkind ) in the Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia ( 1991 ).