The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-07


tacturer OF cannon, armor- plat
and warshipg, who is no more of
lool than Sir julius WERNER, take
Lemoines side OF the controversy
and says he is certain the French
man really makes diamonds.
Like ST Thomas Lord Arm
lstrong says, II only believe in wha,
have seen and touched. and / hav
now the absolute conviction that
NJ Lemoine is genius and that
what he asserts is correct.
M. Lemoine handed me a powder
which, in order to convince myself
worked up with my fingers. IT
was nothing but a powder.
Il myself pat this powder into an
empty crucible, which closed again
and | personally put the crucble in
TO the furnace. When, under the
instruction of M. Lemoine. who
stood some distance from me and
could in no way interfere i'm the
operation, | withdrew the crucible
round in II an aPgiomerated mass.
winch | allowed to cool before my
| eyes.
Il myself broke this shapeless
mass, which presented the appear
ance OF carbonized matter, and there
round these pure diamonds and
these ether diamonds less perfect
Lord Armstrong brought out or
his safe an envelope from which
some fifty little brlliants slipped
and scintillated i'm the sunlight
Theae are diamonds of the purest
water. An expert has valued them
al 80 the carat. rhis, it appears
IS a>yery good rrice for little bril-
liants.
In another envelope we're less
pure and blackened diamonds, such
as are found in the mines of the
lran3yaal ana which was called
bort. ''
When asked by his interviewer.
What is your impression?" he re.
piled.
DO not say my impression /
have the conviction that Lemoine
has actually succeeded in making
the diamond, and that he is at this
moment the object OF unjust calum-
MES. The future will prove it,"
But Sir julius, convinced as he is
that he has been duped offers even
now to give Lemoine $4,000 for his
secret which is in sealed envel-
ope locked up in Coutts's Bank in
London. This offer Lemoine rejects.
Cdr julius says he began TO sus-
pect Lemoine when the latter failed
TO deliver any more diamonds, but
continued to call for more money. .
he called an expert named Hoats
from the Cape and sent him to
Lemoine's factory to witness the
diamond making. But there was
nothing doing" Then he had Le. /
moine arrested.
lhe diamonds made by M. Mols-
san are only dust, So microscopic in
size that their index OF refraction /
was ammeasurable. He made a tCw I
mill 5rmmes OF them at cost OF
about $4,000.
Moissans process is simple. 1t |
OF box made of two
blocks OF carbonate OF lime, fitting
'ne Spyer the other, with a hollow
IN the middle and on each side an
opening through which passes an
alecfric carbon attached to wires
rom a battery. The voltalc current
leaps from these carbons through
.he hollow in the middle of the
stone box, just as 1t LEAPS from one
'arDon to another OF an arc light
"A cylinder OF cast-iron filled with
2arDoa made from sugar is placed
n carbon crucible in the furnace
md the electricity raises the tenn
to 5000 degrees. The
ron cylinder instantly melts and
lDsorDs certain amount of carbon.
Ihe crucible is withdrawn from the
urnace and plunged into melted
lass' Nheh thls has cooled to red
leat 1t is taken from the water
ma lett to cool gradually in the
lir.
lrCn saturated with carbon has
he property Of expanding as il
.ools' This causes terrific pres
ure upon the carbon in the centre
ma squee2es a certain amount OF
arbon out of the iron. 1t is this
arbon which crystalizes and forms
he diamonds.
Anybody who can perfect this
rocess and make diamonds of pure
water and good size has fortune
'eiore him. New York World.