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... possessed the property of attracting light objects when rubbed or heated in the sun , and it was imported from India . These particulars would seem to identify this stone with the Red Tourmaline or Rubellite , which is as electric as ...
... possessed the property of attracting light objects when rubbed or heated in the sun , and it was imported from India . These particulars would seem to identify this stone with the Red Tourmaline or Rubellite , which is as electric as ...
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... of the before - mentioned tablet . " To this circumstantial narrative we may safely apply the line- " The tale of the ' jewel''s a damnable bounce ; " for the property of phosphorescence is possessed by no other 26 SECT . I. MATERIALS .
... of the before - mentioned tablet . " To this circumstantial narrative we may safely apply the line- " The tale of the ' jewel''s a damnable bounce ; " for the property of phosphorescence is possessed by no other 26 SECT . I. MATERIALS .
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Charles William King. for the property of phosphorescence is possessed by no other gem except the Diamond , and this only retains it for a few minutes after having been exposed to a hot sun and then immediately carried into a dark room ...
Charles William King. for the property of phosphorescence is possessed by no other gem except the Diamond , and this only retains it for a few minutes after having been exposed to a hot sun and then immediately carried into a dark room ...
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... possessing it . It was turned up by a peasant when ploughing in a field forty miles distant from Golconda , and was in its rough state fully as large as a hen's egg . Its first owner , in the 17th century , was a Hindoo Rajah , from ...
... possessing it . It was turned up by a peasant when ploughing in a field forty miles distant from Golconda , and was in its rough state fully as large as a hen's egg . Its first owner , in the 17th century , was a Hindoo Rajah , from ...
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... possessed a well - formed octahedral Diamond of about one carat , set open in a massy gold ring of indubit- able antiquity . The largest cabinets of Europe do not , to my knowledge , boast any such specimens , yet I have met with ...
... possessed a well - formed octahedral Diamond of about one carat , set open in a massy gold ring of indubit- able antiquity . The largest cabinets of Europe do not , to my knowledge , boast any such specimens , yet I have met with ...
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