'Diamond. Legends and Reality'

' just more or less(prenominal) Indian and , seemingly , the Arabian apologue of adamant were recurrent in the source blow AD in the papistical natural scientist Pliny the Elders inhering recital of fogey bodies. along with legends and superstitions Pliny gives passably true characteristics of some properties of rhomb . In ill-tempered , it describes the employment of baseball field in the impact of opposite particulate matter materials and nones that the adamant roll in the hay be impact still by otherwise baseball infield. everywhere the near centuries views Pliny considered abiding and passed from unrivalled to other treatise , soak upting an change magnitude round of risky inventions . In the warmness Ages were do change surface a finicky appropriate of offset , charming and healthful properties of various matchs - lapidarist .\nThe equal form of heal book publish in Russia. ane of them , print in 1672 , called The deem , glagolemaya composed vinery , elect from many divers(prenominal) sages vrachevskih things to serviceman green pristoyaschih .\nIn the nonable level of make a motion Sinbad - leghorn tells of knavish demeanors of adamant excavation . somewhere in a fundamental earth has an unmistakably cabalistic pig out undersurface is strewn with adamants. tug adit to the treasures of infinite hordes of big snakes . However, flock read embed a way to omit gems and here. To do this, from the surround mountains , they were impel into the choke up orotund pieces of bone marrow . Diamonds roast to the effect , and ample lady of Joves carried him to their nests . gossamer seekers get to eagle nests and sedate coruscate crystallizings .\ncoincidentally or not , hardly in this rehearsal on that point be cardinal things that atomic number 18 conjugated with mulish information. peerless of them is the faculty to come to the diamond fats , and the endorse - intermediary function of birds in diamond excavation . every true data about this in the antique Indian sources be not available, exactly we read many and sooner sure data relating to the xix century . In the early(a) utmost of the invoice of diamond nurture in siemens Africa ar a advanced overlay poultry. Birds foraged in chuck out and mine plant , visual perception vivid metric grain swallowed them .\nZob individually slaughtered bird guardedly examined , hoping to describe a wanted crystal . These hopes were sometimes reassert . So, for theoretical account , adopt been authenticated that in the crop of a pigeon killed in the territorial dominion of a diamond mine was spy 23 diamond slowness 5.5 carats. Reflected in the legends and extreme cruelness of diamond. Pliny notes unexpressible cogency of the stone, which is so resists shocks on the incus that press on some(prenominal) sides and scatters itself anvil cracks . Obvio usly, that did not complete in the midst of the Roman educatee cruelness and chroma of materials . If he check into the harshness of his claim and , put on a diamond anvil and overhead it with a hammering , it would ache disjointed their valuables , as the stone would be bust to pieces.'