The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-03-05
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Trying 10 make diamonds will beat
least until they haze teen made--an IN
teresting subject to the majority of men.
The la1e effort Of james Maetear. Of
Glasgow, 70 produce diamonds artiG-
cially is 10y 10 means The first that baa
been made. The earliest experiments
OF any importance were recent, how
cveg--only ~ years since. Iatomr and
Gannal, the French chemists, then me
aented pure pieces Of crystalizcd carbon
to the Academy Of Sciences, and caused
thereby tbe greatest excitement, every.
body supposing that the secret Of max
ing diamonds bad been discovered. Tie
result proved that the small crystals,
although transparent, brilliant, and
harder than quartz, would neither scin-
tlllate nor fefraet rays Of light aulFi.
cientiy 10 render them valuable. Eot.
witl,ssssEldIng that aiey sseie composed
cf the saine material as diamonds, they
bad little beauty. They were submit
tel to the lieas test, "a AIacfears crYa.
tails were, bnt like bis, they un,lefae ent.
no perecP;ible change. Sill, only rat
ural diamonds would sciatcb dLem.
ChampiguY, director OF cc,elfated
diamond firm IL Paris, pronounced them
genuine I; wierenpon followed the great
diamond Panic (ls2s), which affected
the whole commercial globe, aud ~i,ich,
doubtless, some Of oar readers relnem-
Der. A few years later the French a;i-
want, Dcspretz, again startled the world
by announcing that be bad produced
artificial diamonds. His method was
to fix a cylinder Of pure carbon to he
positive POLE of weak Daniell bile.
and platinum wire TO the negative
pole, and then to plnnge both poles into
| acidulated water. In two months the
negative pole was covered with a blaci.
coating, which vas sent 10 Caudin
| (MaTc Auteii. TO bc tested on hard
stones. siixed with little oil, the
black PARTICLES would polish rubies, and
as the diamond alone will do this, eau
din did not hesitate TO declare the ar
ticles diamond dDAt, conclusion gen
orally accepted ut the time by men Of
science. The question, 'sCan diamonds
Le made artifeialIy = Is still open. and
many chemists feel sure that it will er..
long lie answered in IL. affirmative. by
expei ipenis absolutely successful. They
have already been produced in ruaterial,
though not in properties. Il Is thought
these may be oblainej by cutting The
crystals differently from what thew are
now cat. Such = discovery would no;
be much mere remarkable than the dis.
coyery naae > Enguiner (If5G) in
producing facet, aud. perfected by Cos
ter ia making planes on the koli-i-noor
| The effect Of such discovery may l.,
conjectured isv reference to the damon,
panic Of 1928. I you'd rcvolutiomizt
values, and create prodisions comna
ton in botn lleniis.sliercs but the com
motion would ai'ate in due time, an.
good would uRqucstionably result. Til
vrlue Of all the diamonds in royal treas
uries, in mercantile, private and tile,
hands, and else3 Ier-, Is stupenlous. /
has been estimated at five billions, OF
according to the French enumeration
Eve Thousand millions Of dollars. 4
destroy capital to that amount woui
( upset for time the wcrld' < commcrcs
! were the capital active But the car
r tai locked MP in diam inis IS who'll
dormant.-.S. !. Times.