DIAMONDS THAT EXPLODE
"It occasionally happens," said lan old mining expert, "-that a diamond, on being taken from its bed •of "cool blue clay into the hot hand lof the miner, "explodes like a tiny bomb-shell. This is, of course, very disappointing, and it is especially strange, because a diamond is the hardest of known substances, and can be forced into steel without breaking. The explanation, however, is that such diamonds contain a minute bubble of gas, which, compressed by the same tremendous pressure that originally formed the diamond, causes it to burst." •
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 August 1911, Page 7
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