* a diamond.
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The word {yahalom} may mean the diamond, from {halam,} to
beat, smite, because of its extreme hardness, by which it
will beat to pieces the other stones. It is a fine pellucid
substance never debased with any admixture of other matter;
susceptible of elegant tinges from metal-line particles;
giving fire with steel; not fermenting with acid menstrua;
scarcely calcinable by any degree of fire; and of one simple
and permanent appearance in all lights. It is the hardest
and most valuable of all gems; when pure, perfectly clear and
pellucid as the clearest water, and eminently distinguished
from all other substances by its vivid splendour, and the
brightness of its reflections.
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