Diamonds: A Rainbow of Natural Beauty
Not All Diamonds Are Colorless 🌈
While the classic diamond is clear, natural diamonds can be yellow, pink, blue, green, and even red due to the presence of impurities or structural anomalies.
Diamond as a form of carbon is a tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle solid, colourless in pure form, a poor conductor of electricity, and insoluble in water
Small numbers of defects or impurities (about one per million of lattice atoms) can color a diamond blue (boron), yellow (nitrogen), brown (defects), green (radiation exposure), purple, pink, orange, or red
Most natural diamonds have ages between 1 billion and 3.5 billion years. Most were formed at depths between 150 and 250 kilometres (93 and 155 mi) in the Earth's mantle
Diamond is a solid form of pure carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal.
Diamonds have been adopted for many uses because of the material's exceptional physical characteristics
The most common crystal structure of diamond is called diamond cubic.Â
Diamonds can scratch other diamonds, but this can result in damage to one or both stones.
Diamonds Are the Hardest Natural Substance .Diamonds are rated 10 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, making them the hardest natural material on Earth. They can only be scratched by another diamond.
Diamonds Are Billions of Years Old .Most diamonds were formed deep within the Earth’s mantle over 1 to 3 billion years ago under high pressure and temperature.
The Largest Diamond Ever Found was Cullinan Diamond, weighing 3,106 carats, is the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever discovered. It was cut into several famous gemstones, including the Star of Africa.