Diamond chips do have some value they are used in high performance commercial drills.
One carat of diamond in a single diamond is worth more than multiple diamonds -- or chips in this case -- is worth. Any diamond is valued by its cut, colour, clarity and carat weight. Anything is worth whatever someone will pay you for it. You can take your chips to a jeweler who makes jewelery and sell them there.
The Koh-i-noor diamond is priceless, and is not for sale. No official value is currently available for it, in any currency.
Every diamond is valued according to its carat weight, its colour, its cut and its clarity. Those four qualities determine any diamond's monetary value.
The market value of any diamond is worth what someone will pay you for it: each is priced individually based on its cut, clarity, colour and carat weight.
Every diamond is a 'pure diamond'. The value of any diamond is what someone will pay you for it. You can purchase a diamond weighing about one carat today from Blue Nile and spend between US$2,100 and US21,000, depending on the cut, clarity and colour of the diamond you want to buy.
To produce chips of metal or plastic or any other material that have a given value.
Take the NCR or any other non-cap currency to any casino in New Vegas, trade it all for chips, and finally trade the chips back for caps. You loose no value with this method, as opposed to selling the currency to a shop.
The best way to measure smoothness in a loose diamond would be to rub every external facet of the stone over fine silk. If there are any chips on the surface of the stone, it will snag the silk. This is not a common test of a diamond, though.
tostitos are the best kind of great value tortilla chips. you can find them at your local wal-mart or any super market that sells food. they also taste great with cheese melted on top of them
Based on the extreme value potential of any diamond material -- diamond material being usually physically small -- the greatest security threat to mine owners is theft of any raw diamond material.
Diamond is a substance (technically, in practice diamonds will have some amount of impurities, so technically they're mixtures, but we'll ignore that). The fact that it's in "chip form" doesn't make any difference.
Every diamond is valued by its cut, clarity, colour and carat weight, even American diamonds.