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	volatilized, using that word in its common accep­tation, but that it was merely molecularly dis­sociated. However this may have been, the results were completely inadequate to the production of the diamond. Violent means having failed, M. Despretz changed the system. For the currents of the pile, intense
	and incessant, he substituted currents of induction, intermittent and feeble; and in place of continuing their action for several hours, maintained them in activity during entire months. The results of his new experiments M. Despretz submitted to the Academy of Sciences.