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Diamonds - How did they get to be that color

May 8, 2006, 12:31 pm

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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    Pink Diamonds: A Girl’s Best Friend

    May 4, 2006, 11:36 am

    Some of the most beautiful diamonds in the world, are pink stones. Joining a fashionable idealism to men and a confident feminism to women, such stones are chased after for their rarity, style and luxury. So find out how to get your very own through the following article by Roger Wembley:

    I’ve got a confession to make. I am a man and I like diamonds. I know what you are thinking: that I’m Liberace. Well, no. I’m not Liberace. I don’t even play the piano. But I like diamonds just as much as anyone else. However, one of the things I noticed is that online, it is very difficult to find information on pink (and other colored) diamonds.

    Let’s take a look at a whole bunch of reasons that pink diamonds are considered some of the nicest diamonds on the face of the earth and why people go to extremes to buy them.
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