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Show Research Finds New Method of Making Diamonds Milady's sparkling- diamond ring pseems destined to take on an ar-j ticial glow. Recent scientific experiments ex-periments placing ordinary carbon under terrific pressure and high temperatures have yielded as much as one-third carat of diamonds in a single test. An early pioneer and actually the first man in history to artificially artific-ially make a diamond is Samuel S. Kistler, dean of the University of Utah college of engineering. Since the initial discovery, sever al research laboratories have im- proved the diamond making process pro-cess until diamonds actually larger larg-er than the average worn on the female hand may someday be produced. pro-duced. Kistler's first diamond came after af-ter five men worked five years performing some 13,000 experiments. experi-ments. The experimental combination combina-tion which "struck" diamonds in ordinary carbon was a pressure of 70,000 pounds per square inch and a temperature of 900 degrees centigrade. Why has man been so eager to make synthetic diamonds? According Accord-ing to Kistler, "Besides the immediate immed-iate desire of cracking the South African monopoly, scientists have just wanted to see if they could do it meet nature's challenge to duplicate one of her choicest products". |