Take your crystal to a local jeweler who can use a probe to help you determine whether or not your crystal is a diamond.
A mineral crystal is not necessarily a diamond, but a diamond is a mineral crystal. All minerals, such as diamond, have crystalline structures.
A calcite crystal comes in a variety of sizes and shapes. There are some that do look like a diamond to the naked idea but you can tell that they are different if you look closely.
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Quartz diamond crystal, commonly known as Herkirmer diamond, is not the same as diamond. A Herkimer diamond can be set in a wedding ring.
Take the two and scratch them off of each other. Which ever is scratched is the crystal. Diamonds are always harder. You can also try to scratch it off of other things too, but the diamond will never scratch.
Diamond is a crystal. Yes.
A diamond is simply a crystal of carbon. Other than there tends to be a lack of trace impurities, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to tell them apart.
No, a diamond is clear carbon.
Diamond is a crystal. Yes.
Your local jeweler can help you determine whether or not the crystal coloured stone you have is a diamond or not.
There are several differences, the primary one being that on the Mohs hardness scale, diamond is 10, quartz is 8. Quartz crystal is very hard, but diamond is harder.
Yes. Any diamond is worth more than a crystal.