MISCELLANEOUS USES OF DIAMOND

The number of other industrial uses of diamond are almost too numerous to record. Diamond plates have been used as bearings in watches and instruments, fine-pointed diamonds are used as engravers and scribers; the tips of gauges have been faced with diamond. Widespread is the use of diamond sty 11 for record-players. In the scientific study of hardness (important to the engineer) this is tested by indenting a shaped diamond cone or pyramid into the object under study, Diamonds are used in the glass industry for edging, for scribing, for bevelling, and so on.
There is a complete range of dentist drills made of diamond. Diamond knives are used for cutting very thin biological sections, for sawing thin wafers of germanium for transistors in nuclear engineering, for drilling and sawing ferrite magnetic cores for the electronic industry … the list is endless.

Even in the home the diamond will be found to have been used in a hundred and one places - if not at first hand, then at second hand. It will have been used on the windows, the electric lamps, the vacuum-cleaner motor bearings and the bathroom tiles.

It will have trued the profile grinders which made the threads on taps and bathroom fittings and on numerous odd mass-produced pieces of metal around the house. II will have played a dominant part on the car in the garage, and much of the electric wiring may have passed through n diamond die, not only lighting wiring but that in the vacuum cleaner, the sewing machine, the television set, and even in the electric razor. In fact, the influence of the diamond is everywhere. There is no single one item in modern industry which plays a more widespread and strategic part Hum this hard little stone, the diamond engagement rings.