Diamond - and the snake dance
Sherry Huang
www.boreway.net
2016-01-13 16:02:56
It will be hard to find something beautiful, likediamondLike snakes always symbiotic. Listen to the famous Roman philosopher Pliny (Pliny) to bring you the story of Diamond Valley.
According to legend, 350 years BC, the Macedonian king Alexander (Alexandera) conquests in India, was found in a pit in diamonds, but there are many within the pit viper guarding, these snakes can place a few feet away on the people killed. Alexander ordered his soldiers to use a mirror refraction (condenser), and the snakes burned to death, and then the lamb thrown into the pit, the pit diamond on top glued lamb, mutton attracted vultures, vultures and even eating mutton Diamond abdominal After fly away, soldiers kill vultures were tracing diamonds. From the legendary serpent is the patron saint of diamond.
Diamond Viper really sent by God to guard it? Dance with snakes, in fact, still rely on the unique charm of the diamond, which is the diamond unique phenomenon of fluorescence. Diamond after the X-ray or UV irradiated will be light, especially at night in a dark place or will be issued blue, cyan, green, yellow and other colors of fluorescence. In ancient times, our country has this feature called diamond is "glowing pearl." God valley near Cardiff wooden ladder in India diamond, the day after by the sun's ultraviolet radiation, emits light cyan fluorescent night. These fluorescent attracted many phototaxis insects flying insects but also attracted a large number of frogs, the frog has attracted a lot of poisonous snakes. Chain, which is multi-diamond valley snakes reasons.
Until the mid-19th century, also the diamond as a magic stone. In all known about 4200 kinds of minerals, diamond the hardest Why? Diamond is where, how to produce out? All these, when people still are totally unaware.
Diamond dealings with mankind has a long history. As early as the 1st century AD, when the Roman literature there records on the diamond. At that time, the Romans have not put a diamond as a decorative gem, just use their incomparable hardness, as crafted tool.
Later, as technology advances, diamond jewelry was only used as a gem, and the price is more expensive. By the 15th century, and in some European cities such as Paris, London and Antwerp (Belgium north of the city), etc., we have been able to see some craftsmen use diamond powder to grind chunks of diamond, diamond processing.
As more and more expensive diamond gem, however, scientific studies of the diamond but relatively slow. One important reason is that, for a long time has been unable to find a store of diamonds"mine"It has been found diamonds in India and Brazil are all other places of sand and gravel in luck collected, the number of rare, very rare. Especially high-quality diamond, extremely expensive, and only the nobility could afford only enjoy. For such an expensive diamond research, in that case, it is almost impossible.
Into the 19th century, the situation began to change. In 1866, a South African living in the juvenile on a farm called Erasmus Jacobi in the Orange flood play, accidentally picked up a piece weighing 21.25 kt (4.25 g. Carat, gem unit of weight, 1 karat = 0.2 g) of diamond rough. That grain diamond was immediately sent to the British colonial governor of Paris International Exposition (1867 - 1868) exhibition, and named "Eureka" (Greek, meaning "I have found").
Heard the news of the diamond discovery in South Africa, for a time there are thousands of prospectors rushed to the Orange River, Formed a frenzy to find the diamond. Which has a pair of surname BernatBrother, soon very fortunate in KimberleyFound near a diamond mine.
Diamond mine discovery is of great significance, through study mineGeological structure, It is possible to know what is possible to form a diamond in place.
