These small round nuggets of obsidian may have a grayish-white perlite matrix. If you have been to a crystal store or a natural science museum with a gift shop, you might have seen stones that you can buy called “ Apache tears”. Obsidian is also a reasonably popular gemstone featured in different jewelry pieces. It creates cleaner cuts and causes less damage to the surrounding tissue than almost any other blade we are able to fabricate.
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This delicate and incredibly sharp nature of obsidian is therefore sometimes used for scalpel blades by surgeons. FREE delivery Tue, Feb 14 on 25 of items shipped by Amazon. A standard household razor blade has a fineness measurement of between 300 to 600 angstroms, and an obsidian blade, in contrast, has a measurement of just 30 angstroms. Qosina offers the PenBlade (R) in surgical blade sizes 10, 11P and 15. The Mayan Indians are credited with using highly sophisticated obsidian blades first 2,500 years ago. I did a research project where I used some simple blade tools to cut up some raw steak. Today, thin blades of obsidian are placed in surgical scalpels used for some of the most precise surgery. An archaeologist had a doctor use obsidian scalpels because they were so much sharper than steel. Today, some knives are still made with obsidian blades because the cutting edge can be almost five times sharper than highly refined steel. Qosina Adds Revolutionary PenBlade® Safety Scalpels to Its Line Ronkonkoma, NY, USA, Febru-Qosina is excited to announce it has added the award-winning, single-use PenBlade (R) safety scalpels to its product line. I used to work as an archaeologist (hard life and was living in a tent) and took a class in lithic technology.
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