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Show IJ Do Sk' s Rain Diamonds? Do the heavens rain diamonds? BI rarre as miy appear Meydenbauer's theory that the diamond is of cosmic origin and has fallen as a meteorite at later periods of tho earth's formation, there are evidences thereof, tho most striking confirmation coming from Arizona. Hero on a broad plain, over an area of about five miles In diameter, diame-ter, had been scattered ono or two thousand masses of metallic iron, the fragments varying in weight from half a ton to a fraction of nn ounce. There was little doubt these masses formed part of a meteoric shower, although no record existed as to when tho fall took place. Curiously enough, near the center whero most of tho meteorites meteor-ites had been found, was a crater with raised edges three-quarters of a mile in diameter and about COO feet deep, bearing exactly the appearance which would be produced had a mighty mass of Iron struck the ground and buried Itself deep under tho surface. An ancient an-cient meteorologist In cutting a section sec-tion of this meteorite found the tools were injured by something vastly harder than metallic Iron, and soon announced that he had found black and transparent diamonds. SInco this revelation diamond hunting In meteorites meteor-ites has occupied chemists all over tho world, some of whom, like Sir William Brookes, havo made a successful find. So look nut for meteors. They may contain diamonds. |