| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The nature of diamonds // edited by George E. Harlow. |
| other author: |
Harlow, George E. |
| Published: |
Cambridge ;Cambridge University Press in association with the American Museum of Natural History, : 1998., |
| Description: |
x, 278 p. :ill. (some col.), col. maps ;29 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
What is diamond? / George E. Harlow -- The nature of color in diamonds / Emmanuel Fritsch -- The origin of diamonds: earth processes / Melissa B. Kirkley -- Natural sources of diamond other than the earth's mantle / George E. Harlow, Vladislav S. Shatsky, and Nikolai V. Sobolev -- Diamond sources and their discovery / Alfred A. Levinson -- Following the history of diamonds / George E. Harlow -- A historical overview of diamond cuts / Benjamin Zucker -- Regal ornaments: six centuries of diamond jewelry / Diana Scarisbrick -- The diamond love and marriage ring / Diana Scarisbrick -- The value of diamonds in English literature / Carole Slade -- Diamond jewelry for everyone / Janet Zapata -- Hollywood loves diamonds / Maura Spiegel -- Diamonds in the twentieth century / George E. Harlow -- From the earth to fashioned objects: processing diamond / George E. Harlow -- Diamonds as gemstones / James E. Shigley and Thomas Moses -- Diamonds in modern technology: synthesis and applications / Alan T. Collins. |
| Subject: |
Diamonds. - |
| ISBN: |
0521629357$b(paperback) : |