 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1888 - 346 Seiten
...experimenting on the thinness to which its scales could be reduced by splitting. It was at Bakersville that we saw specimens of mica that resembled the delicate...exquisite and delicate vegetable beauty of the coal age. But the magnet shows this tracery to be iron. We were shown also emeralds and " diamonds," picked up... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1888 - 350 Seiten
...experimenting on the thinness to which its scales could be reduced by splitting. It was at Bakersville that we saw specimens of mica that resembled the delicate...purples, and gold, changing from one to the other in tho reflected light. In the texture were the tracings of fossil forms of ferns and the most exquisite... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1904 - 438 Seiten
...experimenting on the thinness to which its scales could be reduced by splitting. It was at Bakersville that we saw specimens of mica that resembled the delicate...exquisite and delicate vegetable beauty of the coal age. But the magnet shows this tracery to be iron. We were shown also emeralds and " diamonds," picked up... | |
 | 1885 - 896 Seiten
...experimenting on the thinness to which its scales could be reduced by splitting. It was at Bakersville that we saw specimens of mica that resembled the delicate...exquisite and delicate vegetable beauty of the coal age. But the magnet shows this tracery to be iron. We were shown also emeralds and " diamonds," picked up... | |
 | 1885 - 1084 Seiten
...experimenting on the thinness to which its scales could be reduced by splitting. It was at Bakersville that we saw specimens of mica that resembled the delicate...exquisite and delicate vegetable beauty of the coal age. But the magnet shows this tracery to be iron. We were shown also emeralds and " diamonds," picked up... | |
 | 1885 - 940 Seiten
...experimenting on the thinness to which its scales could be reduced by splitting. It was at Bakersville that we saw specimens of mica that resembled the delicate...rainbow colors — the most delicate greens, reds, bines, purples, and gold, changing from one to the other in the reflected light In the texture were... | |
 | Kevin E. O'Donnell, Helen Hollingsworth - 2004 - 414 Seiten
...experimenting on the thinness to which its scales could be reduced by splitting. It was at Bakersville that we saw specimens of mica that resembled the delicate...exquisite and delicate vegetable beauty of the coal age. But the magnet shows this tracery to be iron. We were shown also emeralds and "diamonds," picked up... | |
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Garnets are often found imbedded in the laminae, flattened by the extreme pressure to which the mass was subjected. It is fascinating material, this mica, to handle, and we amused ourselves by experimenting on the thinness to which its scales could be... 