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Diamonds - How did they get to be that color

We all know that colored diamonds are among the most beautiful of gems, but how exactly is their radiance of hue actually formed? Find out through the following, by Kathy Abdelhak, article’s exploration:

Did you ever walk into a jewelry store and see blue diamonds, pink diamonds, yellow diamonds, or green diamonds, and wonder how they got to be that color by nature? Yes diamonds come in all of these colors, and more naturally. When a diamond appears colorless, white light or daylight ( all the colors of the spectrum combined) enter the diamond and are all absorbed so no color is reflected back to the eye. Color in diamonds is absorption and reflection of light.

This is caused in three ways:
Diamonds are pure carbon so something else was caught in the stone during the formation of the diamond which changes the absorption spectrum. Take yellow and orange diamonds for example they contain nitrogen while blue diamonds contain boron.
Gray, violet and some green diamonds contain hydrogen. As you can see these are all elements that were caught in the stone during its formation.

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