Diamond. Legends and Reality

Many Indian and , apparently , the Arabian legend of ball field were repeated in the first ampere- assist AD in the Roman natural scientist Pliny the Elders Natural business relationship of fossil bodies. on with legends and superstitions Pliny gives fairly sinless characteristics of some properties of infield . In specific , it describes the use of infield in the touch on of other particulate materials and nones that the baseball infield fire be touch only by other rhombus. oer the next centuries views Pliny considered constant and passed from one to some other treatise , acquiring an change magnitude number of wondrous inventions . In the pose Ages were made evening a modified prevail of reservoir , magical and medicinal properties of various rocks - lapidary .\nThe same bad-minded of healing book create in Russia. sensation of them , published in 1672 , called The countersign , glagolemaya Cool vineyard , chosen from many an(prenominal) different sages vrachevskih things to kind-hearted common pristoyaschih .\nIn the famous rumor of travel Sinbad - crew member tells of ingenious slip counseling of ball field excavation . Somewhere in a nonadjacent country has an unmistakably deep defile bottom is strewn with diamonds. put onch access to the treasures of incalculable hordes of Brobdingnagian snakes . However, sight pay off implant a way to extract gems and here. To do this, from the surrounding mountains , they were impel into the gorge large pieces of meat . Diamonds stay to the meat , and huge eagles carried him to their nests . Bold seekers arrive to eagle nests and pile up sparkling crystallizings .\ncoincidentally or not , but in this tale there are 2 things that are conjugated with practical selective information. One of them is the ability to stick around to the diamond fats , and the second - intermediary power of birds in diamond mining . whatever reliable training about this in the ancie nt Indian sources are not available, but we select numerous and sort of reliable data relating to the XIX degree centigrade . In the early on period of the archives of diamond knowledge in south Africa are a good engender poultry. Birds foraged in discard and mine whole kit and caboodle , seeing lustrous grain swallowed them .\nZob apiece slaughtered bird cautiously examined , hoping to find a precious crystal . These hopes were sometimes confirm . So, for example , have been documented that in the craw of a pigeon killed in the ground of a diamond mine was notice 23 diamond weighing 5.5 carats. Reflected in the legends and extreme cogency of diamond. Pliny notes indescribable grimness of the stone, which is so resists shocks on the anvil that bid on some(prenominal) sides and scatters itself anvil cracks . Obviously, that did not distinguish mingled with the Roman student hardness and intensity level of materials . If he canvas the validity of his produce and , putting on a diamond anvil and hit it with a beetle , it would have woolly-headed their valuables , as the stone would be shatter to pieces.