Show sti steel diamonds within a year ear or two the french chemist monsieur doissan has succeeded in making minute diamonds by saturating melted iron with carbon and then cooling the iron under strong pressure the carbon crystallizes into th the e form of diamonds as the metal cools cs this experiment has been repeated many man times timea recently it occurred to monsieur rossel that there must be diamonds in very hard steel which is produced in a manner similar to the process of monsieur Moi moisson asan accordingly he examined many specimens of such steel and discovered that in fi fact act it does contain microscopic diamonds mere specks in size but presenting the characteristic forms forma and properties of natural diamonds at a recent meeting of the academy of sciences in paris oMa rossel exhibited magnified photographs of several of these minute gems taken from bits of steel |