Chemical Lexicon

These last two are degenerate and have authority only in name.

The best Diamonds are discovered on anvils; for they reject the blow, so that the iron rebounds on both sides, and the anvils themselves shatter; for their hardness is ineffable, a scorner and victor of fire, never heating up in fire.

This stone is broken by fresh warm goat’s blood, especially when the goat has first drunk wine or eaten parsley and mountain siseleos a type of herb.

Diamonds are sought by sculptors for carving and shaping gems and other materials, and should be enclosed only in iron.

They do not suffer other metallic things, and are themselves dissolved by lead.

Adamas binds the Magnet and deprives it of its strength; for placed near iron, it does not allow itself to be attracted, or if a Magnet is brought near and has grasped iron, it may snatch and carry away the iron.

Adamas makes poisons void, drives away madness, spirits, incubi, and succubi: it makes one animated and strong, for which reason it is called anachitis a stone that attracts or repels. It is effective against quarrels and disputes, and cures loose gums. Serapius.

Diamonds are seen in Bohemia that are so excellent that they surpass the oriental ones in elegance and splendor. Astrologers dedicated the Diamond to the Moon.

Adarnech, Is orpiment.

Adarces, Is a thing born in maritime places, especially in Cappadocia or Galatia: like concrete salt-brine, emerging in damp and marshy places, agglutinated by dryness to reeds and herbs. The Indian kind naturally grows on the reeds of India, or like Indian salt on the Cane.

Adarces, Is similar in color to the flower of the Asius stone, and in form to the halcyon a type of sea creature/foam nest, and sometimes close to being hollow,