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GLASGOW seems determined to have the honour of producing the diamond artificially. In spite of Mr. Mactear's recent failure, Mr. J. B. Hannay, whose paper on the solubility of solids in gases we published not long ago, has been utilising the method indicated in that paper in experiments on the artificial production of the diamond. Mr. Hannay reads a paper on the subject at the Royal Society to-night, and any remarks on his work we shall postpone for the present. Meantime from the letters and articles that have appeared in the papers, we may form some idea of what has been done. Prof. Story Maskelyne, writing to the Times, says:—
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Artificial Production of Diamonds . Nature 21, 404 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021404a0
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