Trapped within large diamonds, slivers of embedded
iron surrounded by special gases reveal that the precious gems were formed in
liquid metal — a discovery that also confirms metal - saturated conditions
deep in the Earth, a new study in the 16 December issue of Science reports.
So tremendous had the force of the sea been when it broke the ship, that it had beaten one great ingot of gold,
deep into a strong and heavy piece of her solid
iron - work: in which, also, several loose sovereigns that the ingot had swept in before it, had been found, as firmly embedded as though the
iron had been
liquid when they were forced there.1