Diamond Color: Determining the grade
Diamond grades are how a diamond’s value is determined. Among the four ways of such, is by the color of a gem. The ensuing article entails exactly how:
Diamond color is one of the four grades used in determining the value of a diamond. The stones will occur naturally in a range of colors, but the most common one are the pure colorless diamonds.
Colored diamonds have color because of structural defects that cause the stone to absorb all but one color of the rainbow or in the case of black diamonds all the colors are absorbed. Because colored diamonds are rare and pretty they actually cost more than the clear diamonds, sometimes in excess of thousands of dollars for the same carat size.
Diamond colors are, colorless, white, yellow, steel, blue, orange, green, pink, brown, and black.
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