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English: Moon

Identifier: scienceguide7692amer (find matches)
Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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es, occurs. Siliconcarbide (moissanite) occurs in this iron, andfor a time was not known to occur elsewherein nature. Silicon carbide is manufacturedunder the trade name of Carborundum, atNiagara Falls, New York. It is next to dia-mond in hardness, with the exception of boroncarbide. Probably correlated with the siliconcarbide is the occurrence of diamonds, all ex-tremely small. As stated in Dr. Toothakersletter quoted above. Dr. G. A. Koenig, Profes-sor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsyl-vania, was the first to isolate diamonds fromthis meteoric iron, and this was in 1891. Thesediamonds were very small, one mentioned inthe report having a diameter of one-half milli-meter. The material analyzed was from a forty-pound meteorite brought from Meteor Craterby Dr. A. E. Foote of Philadelphia, who, inthis same year, was the first to bring this craterprominently before the scientific world. Laterfive diamonds were secured from this iron byDr. J. W. Mallet, F.R.S., Professor of Chem- 5
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Photograph from Yerkes Observatory Craters of the Moon Above: The moon at gibbous phase between first quarterand full, showing many of the 30,000 craters on the sidewhich is always turning toward the earth. The similarity ofthese lunar craters to Meteor Crater in Arizona is evident Below: The elevated rim of Meteor Crater from a distanceof two or three miles. It varies in height from 130 to 160 feet Photograph by Clyde Fisher

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no.76-92
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  • bookid:scienceguide7692amer
  • bookyear:1901
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York___The_Museum
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:IMLS___LSTA___METRO
  • bookleafnumber:651
  • bookcollection:americanmuseumnaturalhistory
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
  • bookcollection:americana
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  • BHL Consortium
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