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Ch. 3: Diamond

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COMPOSITION OF DIAMOND.               81
carbonic acid only; the diamond, then, must be com­posed of carbon and nothing else.
Certain doubts still lingered upon this point, but they were dispelled by the publication in 1841 of
the grand work of MM. Dumas and Stass upon the equivalent of carbon.
In their experiments these two savants burned a great number of diamonds, but they corrected an error the maintenance of which would have been a veritable calamity to science. The capital impor-
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