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Diamond

History

Diamond is one precious gems which to be found in Egypt and is one of the natural allotropes of the carbon. DiamondDiamond is one of hardest naturally occurring material scoring 12 on the old Mohs hardness scale. There is one of the materials which is structurally identically and it is as hard as diamond boron nitride, but currently it is actually a hypothetical material,

The diamond derives its name from the Greek adamas, "untamable" and "unconquerable", referring to its hardness.

The luster of a diamond is described as an adamantine, which simplamond is described as an adamantine, which simply means diamond-like.

Diamond is a transparent crystal with a refractive index of 2.427, a high dispersion of 0.043, and a specific gravity of 3.53. Diamonds have a cubic crystal system consisting of tetrahedral bonded carbon atoms. Diamonds have a perfect octahedral cleavage that means that they have 6 cleavage planes. They sometimes have a concordat (like glass) fracture, sometimes irregular.

Colour and Value

Diamonds exhibit fluorescence of various colors under long wave ultra-violet light, but generally bluish-white, yellowish and greenish fluorescence under X-rays. Diamonds had a violet absorption spectrum at 415.4 nm. Colored stones normally show additional violet bands. Brown diamonds show a green band at 505 nm, sometimes accompanied by 3 additional weak green bands.

All diamonds are very good electrical insulators except natural blue diamonds which are semiconductors. Because of the strong bonding within the molecules diamonds are also good conductors of heat. Specially purified artificial diamonds have the highest thermal conductivity (20-30 W/cmK, five times more than copper) of any known solid at room temperature. Natural blue diamonds contain boron atoms that replace carbon atoms in the crystal matrix, and also have high thermal conductance. Because diamonds have such high thermal conductance they are already used in semiconductor manufacture to prevent silicon and also other semi conducting materials from overheating. Natural blue diamonds and synthetic diamonds doped with boron are p-type semiconductors. If an n-type semiconductor could be synthesized, electronic circuits could be manufactured of diamond.

There are four sizes of diamond (currently known) and are found when mining, using a jeweler’s pick on the unearthed ore stones in lieu of smelting it in a furnace.

Diamond Bracelet

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Diamond Earring

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Diamond Necklace

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Diamond Rings

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