Diamonds are considered valuable and expensive fashion items.
Diamond is a really famous gem. Let’s find out more about it!
- Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon.
- Its atoms arranged in a crystal structure and diamond cubic.
- Diamond has the highest hardness.
- It also has the highest thermal conductivity of any material.
- Diamonds are found deep in the Earth.
- Typically they are yellow, brown or gray to colorless.
- Less often they are blue, green, black, pink, violet, orange, purple, and red.
- There are also synthetic diamonds.
- Diamonds are April’s birthstone.
- The ancients Romans and Greeks believed that diamonds were tears cried by the gods.
- Another belief was that they were splinters from falling stars.
- Romans believed that Cupid’s arrows had diamonds.
- Diamonds are billions of years old.
- In some cases, they are more than 3 billion years old.
- They have been carried to the earth’s surface by deep volcanic eruptions.
- They are 100% carbon.
- The word diamond comes from the Greek word Adamas.
- This means invincible or indestructible.
- The only thing that can stretch a diamond is… another diamond.
- Ancient Hindus used diamonds in the devotional statues’ eyes.
- During the Middle Ages, diamonds were thought to have healing properties.
- The largest diamond ever discovered was named Cullinan.
- It weighed 3.106 carats.
- It was discovered in 1905 in South Africa.
- Diamonds are commonly used as engagement rings.
- This happened for the first time in 1477.
- Scientists believe they discovered one planet that is 1/3 pure diamond.
