Glittering stars in the night sky aside, scientists have long known that there are diamonds in the heavens. In 1981, for example, when Smithsonian researchers tried to cut through a large iron ...
A big, beautiful diamond. Sure, it catches light like no other gem, and it's the hardest material on Earth, and it's worth an awful lot of money. But what is it really but a collection of ordinary ...
In the pendant surrounding the Hope Diamond are 16 white diamonds, both pear-shapes and cushion cuts. A bail is soldered to the pendant where Mrs. McLean would often attach other diamonds including ...
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It’s been 15 years since the global effort to ban conflict diamonds began. But the industry is still tainted by conflict and misery Story by Aryn Baker/Tshikapa Photographs by Lynsey Addario for ...
Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED In an age when you can get just about anything online, it's probably no surprise that you can buy a diamond-making machine for $200,000 on ...
This builds trust between you and the buyer. Selling diamonds online is the way to go nowadays, but you need a good story to make a diamond appealing without a certificate. For potential customers ...
The development of diamond technologies has borne that out since the material was first discovered. Diamond’s allure as a gemstone and its use as a tool due to its hardness have encouraged ...
First, the title “What does 'harder than diamond' mean?”, suggests that some materials can be harder than diamond. In fact, so far, no natural or synthesized material has been found to be ...