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  Incredible Facts about Diamonds

I know diamonds are the only best friends of a woman. But when you talk about April-bornwomen, ahem-ahem, they are privileged to ask for diamond gifts. Yes, it is their birth stone.

Well if someone is not there to gift you, why to leave this opportunity. Pamper yourself by

gifting a diamond. I know you find any e!use "wink".

#o make this more interesting following are few fa!ts about our bae, diamonds $

1. %reek & 'oman beliefs stated that the diamonds are the tears shed by the gods. Also,

(upid)s bow has got diamond tips.

2. If you want to !al!ulate the age of your diamond, don)t !onfuse it with your store brought

age. #hey are almost a billion years old. Yes that little sparkling guy has seen the worldmore than you.

3. *ol!anos bring these deep buried stones to surfa!e. #hey are nearly + km beneath the

surfa!e of the earth.

4. iamond is nothing but the allotrope of !arbon. #he arrangement of !arbon atoms in its

stru!ture makes it provides diamond its sparkling shine & hardness. It all o!!urs at veryhigh temperature & pressure beneath the surfa!e of earth.

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5. /Adamas0 is the parent word of diamond. It means unbreakable or indestru!tible.

6. It is the hardest substan!e that is naturally available. 1nly a diamond !an s!ore another

diamond.

7. iamonds have always been valued & !raved for. It was traded in India around fourth-

third !entury B(. As said by famous 'oman naturalist Pliny /iamond is the most

valuable, not only of pre!ious stones, but of all things in this world.0

8. iamonds were used in the eyes of 2indu deities & it was a belief that the diamond

 prote!ts its wearer from any up!oming ha3ard.

9. 4ome kings used to wear diamond on their !oat of mail as it was a belief that it gives

strength & !ourage to wearer.

10. In middle ages, it was believed that diamonds have got medi!inal properties whi!h !an

!ure ehaustion to psy!hologi!al problems.

11. India was the prime sour!e of diamonds in the starting of +5s. #he diamonds from

India were sold ma6orly in 7uropean markets. #hen in +8s Bra3il be!ame the ma6or

origin of diamonds & supplied diamonds to whole world. But by the late +9s, 4outh

Afri!a took the !rown of ma6or supplier, be!ause huge reserves were dis!overed.

2owever, today, the ma6ority of the diamonds are supplied by, 'ussia, Botswana, (anada& :amibia.

12. ;(ullinan) was the largest diamond dis!overed ever. It weighed nearly <+ !arats. It was

dis!overed in +=>, in 4outh Afri!a, and was given to ?ing 7dward. It was !ut in to =

large & + small diamonds. < largest of them are displayed in #ower of @ondon, in

!rown 6ewels.

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13. Ar!hduke of Austria gave ary of Burgundy gold ring studded with diamonds whi!h

spelled . It was first known use of diamond as an engagement ring.

14. #he diamonds !reated at labs has got same physi!al & !hemi!al properties as a realdiamond. 4ometimes the gemologists get !onfused in both. #o differentiate in lab-!reated

& real diamonds spe!iali3ed euipments are reuired.

15. />> (an!ri e0 is the planet of dreams of every woman. %uessing why. Be!ause +C<rd of the

 planet !onsists of pure diamond. (omplete planet is nearly !omposed of !arbon. It is

lo!ated near ilky Way and was dis!overed in D5. 2owever, even more surprisingly

there eists a planet !alled @u!y whi!h is a diamond star estimated to weigh + billion

trillion !arats. "sigh"

#here are few stores available whi!h give you nature friendly and lab !reated diamonds.

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