November 24th, 2008 by Don Pedro

You know, ladies can’t resist the lure of diamond. With the beauty of the thing it is a wonder there is even a single woman alive who doesn’t have one. You know how ladies like beautiful things. Most would sooner have diamond jewelry than anything else.

Jewels are beautiful, but they are never the real thing unless they are made of diamonds. Earth’s most unique substance will look good on any finger, and make it’s wearer an instant celebrity. That’s why we all want it.

With a substance as beautiful as the diamond, certainly there have been countless attempts to reproduce it. All have failed, the closest being graphite, a substance that should not even be allowed in the same room as diamond. Evidence shows that sometimes diamonds form as deep as 670 km into the Earth. You can’t reproduce that. You can only hope to pay for it.

One bar is the pressure that the atmosphere exerts at sea level. To form those perfect jewels of yours, the earth needs to summon about 50,000 times that. It’s just crazy: everything that goes into the formation of a diamond.

The best things in life are free, some say. And in a sense they are, until one man gets to it and puts a price upon it. Diamonds are free for whoever finds them first, and then they cost a fortune, prize for the highest bidder.

Conditions that are ideal for diamond formation cannot be reenacted by humans. Much as they have tried, they have always failed. And so the diamond retains its uniqueness in brilliance and beauty. Little wonder it is so expensive as a jewel.

Silver can be melted down, gold can be diluted, but diamond diamond is forever. No matter how much you have to pay to have it, you know it is worth every penny and it will never blemish. Twenty - no, a hundred years to come, the diamond will retain its brilliance.

Diamond jewelry possesses a brilliance that arises from its index of refraction. This is determined by the angle at which light is bent as it crosses the boundary between the air and the stone upon entry and upon exit. The higher this value, the higher the brilliance of the mineral, and thus, the more it will cost you, if you desire to own it.

Black diamonds are not thought to come from the earth’s bowels because their chemistry is seen as different. By infrared analysis, carbonado samples indicate that the minerals in them may have been formed between 2 and 4 billion years ago in a supernova explosion. These figures make your head spin, don’t they? That should increase the value of diamond jewelries, don’t you agree?

Pure diamond has a density that is close to 3.52 g/cm3, which is much denser than other crystals that are composed of elements of similar weight to carbon. This is so because carbon atoms in diamond are packed tightly together, more so than all the others. So you know that it does weigh something, when it comes that hard packed!