Diamonds
by William Crookes
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About this eBook
- Author
- Crookes, William, 1832-1919
- Credits
- Produced by deaurider, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TN: Technology: Mining engineering, Metallurgy
- Subject
- Diamonds
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 61096
- Release Date
- January 4, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.·DIAMONDS·
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF PLATES
- 5.CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY — Cape Colony — River Washings
- 6.CHAPTER II KIMBERLEY AND ITS DIAMOND MINES — The Pipes or Craters — The Kimberley Mine in Old Days
- 7.CHAPTER III KIMBERLEY MINES AT THE PRESENT DAY — The Compound System — Underground Workings — The Depositing Floors — Washing and Concentrating Machinery
- 8.CHAPTER IV COLLECTING THE GEMS — Automatic Diamond Collector — The Yield of Diamonds — Varieties of Diamonds Fancy Stones — Falling off of Yield with Depth — Stones other than Diamonds
- 9.CHAPTER V THE DIAMOND OFFICE
- 10.CHAPTER VI NOTEWORTHY DIAMONDS
- 11.CHAPTER VII BOART, CARBONADO, AND GRAPHITE — Graphite — Crystallisation
- 12.CHAPTER VIII PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF THE DIAMOND — Hardness — Density or Specific Gravity — Phosphorescence of Diamond — Conversion of Diamond into Graphite — Tribo-Luminescence — Absorption Spectrum of Diamond — Refractivity — The Diamond and Polarised Light — The Diamond and Röntgen Rays — Action of Radium on Diamond — Boiling- and Melting-point of Carbon
- 13.CHAPTER IX GENESIS OF THE DIAMOND — A New Formation of Diamond
- 14.CHAPTER X THE NATURAL FORMATION OF THE DIAMOND
- 15.CHAPTER XI METEORIC DIAMONDS
- 16.INDEX — FOOTNOTES:
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