cost
of the material to be experimented upon), unable to determine
positively what chemical action took place during the time the diamonds
were heated in the complicated silica flux. Some of these partly
absorbed diamonds, upon which Herr Luzi experimented, are deposited in
the mineralogical museum of the Leipsic University.
Herr Luzi further remarks that perhaps other molten silica combinations, or those of a similar nature to the blue ground, may have the same power of attacking the diamond.
The
knowledge that diamonds can be absorbed by a silicate magma makes one
inclined to investigate further the genesis of the diamond, which
many claim was formed under great heat and pressure. If such was the
genesis of the diamond, Herr Luzi's experiments would indicate that the
original matrix was not a silica combination
