The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word CORUNDUM
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More clues leading to the result CORUNDUM
- Brother, not silent presumably, sounding abrasive
- Mineral company managed to have ditch shortened
- Abrasive mound cur removed
- Jointly managed depleted uranium and fermium nucleus with this mineral
- It is very hard auditing Telco run dumbly
- Maybe a ruby from curmudgeon sorry after Georgia’s left
- An abrasive scrap almost ending company career
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What does CORUNDUM mean?
CORUNDUM noun- An extremely hard mineral, a form of aluminum oxide with the chemical formula Al2O3, that occurs in the form of the gemstones sapphire and ruby; it is used as an abrasive.