Welcome to the exciting world of diamonds.
Title: Diamond - The Brightest CarbonWord Count:414Summary:The brightest part in a woman’s lifetime, diamond, is an allotropic form (different form) of darkest of the elements in the periodic table. The most fought for of all the gems, diamonds, have a extended romancing history. Welcome to the exciting earth of diamonds.Keywords:diamonds,black diamond,precious stonesArticle Body:The brightest part in a woman’s lifetime, diamond, is an allotropic form (different form) of darkest of the elements in the periodic table. The most fought for of all the gems, diamonds, have a extended romancing history. Welcome to the exciting earth of diamonds.Origin and Diamond MarketDiamond has a bloody history fair from Cleopatra to the famed Koh-I-Noor which at the earliest recorded date, 1526 AD, weighed 793 carats before being reduced to 186 carats by the lapidary Borgio.Today De Beers monopolizes diamond production and trade which is encircling 130 million carats annually and in addition. A diamond is weighed in units of carats and a carat originally meant the weight of one carob seed. The present average carat is, however, metric and equals 0.2 gm or 1/42 of an ounce.How to Acquire DiamondsDiamonds mined outside (mainly in South Africa and Botswana) can’t be sold directly as these are raw. The 4Cs which stand for carat, clarity, color and divide of diamonds, determine the quality and value of these gems. Carat: A carat equals 0.2 gm in weight and further divided into 100 points. This method a quarter carat equals 25 points and is written as 0.25 ct. It is dense that one can avail a diamond weighing a carat or above these days. It is nearly always in fractions of carats immediately.Clarity: Clearer the diamonds higher are the costs. Tiny inclusions (impurities due to presence of other minerals) mask the brilliance. While costing, the numbers of inclusions, their colors, positions are considered. Fewer the inclusions, greater is the reflection and higher is the value. Clarity is graded from I3 to VVS1, starting from Very Noticeable Inclusions to Very, Very Slightly Included, in decreasing order.Color: The best color for diamond is having no color. White blaze passed through it will come outside in rainbow colors. Although most diamonds gaze colorless they are slightly yellow or brown with subtle shades. Proximity to being colorless raises the value.Divide: Divide is the dictator of a diamond’s value. A best divide diamond reflects all the blaze without allowing it to pass through giving it the brightest of shines. The best divide diamond has 57 facets (divide and polished faces) with 33 of them being on the top half, crown, and the rest on the pavilion, bottom half. Mathematically this gives the total reflection. The best divide diamond will have a round shape with the pavilion having an included angle 600 albeit there is a complex guidance chart for cutting diamonds.