TRANSMUTATION OF TOPAZ.

Yellow topazes may be converted into pink by heat; but it is a mistake

to suppose that in the process the yellow colour is changed into pink:

the fact is, that one of the pencils being yellow and the other pink,

the yellow is discharged by heat, thus leaving the pink unimpaired.

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