Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1916 — SCIENTIST MAKES DIAMONDS [ARTICLE]

SCIENTIST MAKES DIAMONDS

Savant Separates Carbonic Anhydrides in Form of Snow—Finds Gems in Residue. Geneva. —The synthetic diamond long sought for by science, appears at last to have been discovered, says the Geneva Tribune. “Research work is being carried out at the Geneva laboratory of inorganic chemistry,” adds the newspaper, “on the separation of carbonic anhydrides in the form of snow by chlorophylous pyridine in solution and other nitrous organic liquids. In the residue, besides free carbons of varying weight, have been found very hard and very white tetrahedral and octohedral crystals, which burned without leaving ashes and were insoluble in aqua regia, possessing, as far as the analysis made up to the present show, all the properties of the diamond.”