Provides a gemmologist, gemmological (or mineralogical) student, or interested party with an overview of the synthesis of diamonds. This book begins with the history of diamond synthesis, and the theories on which much of the early work was based, before discussing the principles on which the modern processes rely.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automated Deduction, CADE-15, held in Lindau, Germany, in July 1998. The volume presents three invited contributions together with 25 revised full papers and 10 revised system descriptions; these were selected from a total of 120 submissions. The papers address all current issues in automated deduction and theorem proving based on resolution, superposition, model generation and elimination, or connection tableau calculus, in first-order, higher-order, intuitionistic, or modal logics, and describe applications to geometry, computer algebra, or reactive systems.

Vols. for 1955-1962 include: Mining guidebook and buying directory.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 2nd International Joint C- ference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2004) held July 4–8, 2004 in Cork, Ireland. IJCAR 2004 continued the tradition established at the ?rst IJCAR in Siena,Italyin2001,whichbroughttogetherdi?erentresearchcommunitieswo- ing in automated reasoning. The current IJCAR is the fusion of the following conferences: CADE: The International Conference on Automated Deduction, CALCULEMUS: Symposium on the Integration of Symbolic Computation and Mechanized Reasoning, FroCoS: Workshop on Frontiers of Combining Systems, FTP: The International Workshop on First-Order Theorem Proving, and TABLEAUX: The International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods. There were 74 research papers submitted to IJCAR as well as 12 system descriptions. After extensive reviewing, 26 research papers and 6 system - scriptions were accepted for presentation at the conference and publication in this volume. In addition, this volume also contains papers from the three invited speakers and a description of the CADE ATP system competition. We would like to acknowledge the enormous amount of work put in by the members of the program committee, the various organizing and steering c- mittees, the IJCAR o?cials, the invited speakers, and the additional referees named on the following pages. We would also like to thank Achim Brucker and Barbara Geiser for their help in producing this volume.

Thousands of recipes from the ingenious to the horrific are collected in these pages, representing the cutting edge of science and technology -- in 1914. Poison antidotes, pyrotechnics, cosmetics, fireproofing techniques, cleaning formulas, photography, and spirits are just a small sampling of the subjects covered. You will learn to clean pearls by baking them inside a loaf of bread, or how to fix broken porcelain with glue extracted from a freshly dissected snail. You will catch a glimpse of a world on the brink of the Great War, when house keepers needed to detect the presence of formaldehyde in their milk or the ability to save rancid butter. Not only will you see history more vividly than you've ever seen it before -- you can recreate it!A few pages on metal alloys pigments and celluloid have been omitted from the original. Unabridged version available in hardcover.

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