Show diamonds remain intaj lj precious because baffling Bal 9 LONDON if diamonds could be made by the local druggist or baked b aked in big blast furnaces they would b be 0 less precious to us than they now are in spite of their glit flashing fla ahing like the th e ancients whose passion it was to make gold from baser metals modern scientists who have been able abib to make almost every thing conce conceivable fable artificially from silk to peppermint have striven to make diamonds aswell but bui after years of experiment and study natures recipe for diamonds is still as machof a secret as ever indeed there are probably plenty of diamonds in the world and no need tor for artificial ones once buethe but the best dia diamond 1 mond fields are owned by a very few corporations which have no intention of producing so many gems that they become cheap and so longas long as the tiny crystals obtained by melting pure iron with sugar e harcoM ln furnace and then plim plunging ging the melted mass into cold water are not improved upon chete I 1 is s little likelihood that dla dia mond swill be sold in 10 cent stores although their history I 1 is 3 still a scientific my mystery we know thai tha diamonds are a tomi form of carbon it if you hold a diamond ring in a fire for a few minutes you will have a little mass of melted gold left but not a sign of a diamond we know too that we can make graphite another anoche r form of carbon from diamonds but once the diamond has been changed into graphite it cannot be changed back into hita diamond 0 again ain |