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Precious Stone Diamond

History

Diamond is one precious gems which to be found in Egypt and is one of the natural allotropes of the carbon. Diamond 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.

Historical Facts of Diamond

Refractive Index: 2.417

Chemical Composition: Hardness

Density: 3.52

Crystal Group: Cubic

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Month of the year: April

Planet: Mars

Ocurrence: Africa, Russia, Canada, Australia, India

Color: White, yellow, brown, black. Rarely, blue, red, or pink

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