A lot like a slightly greasy piece of glass, really.
If you're asking about the crystal form, it's often octahedral.
It looks kind of like smoky or clear rock... sort of like dirty glass chunks.
A lot like a slightly greasy piece of glass, really. If you're asking about the crystal form, it's often octahedral.
The proper words are raw diamond, raw stone, rough diamond, uncut diamond -- all are appropriate.
The Uncut Diamond - 1916 was released on: USA: 4 March 1916
If the uncut diamond is 'registered' it must have been registered for a reason. Its value may be part of this registration process, or not. Any diamond, cut or uncut, is worth whatever a buyer will pay for it.
Take the raw stone to a jeweler who can apply a probe to the stone to determine whether or not it could be an uncut diamond.
Coal+pressure=uncut diamond+tool=diamond
Uncut unshaped diamonds look like shiny black coal
If your talking about the engagement ring in miscellania and etceteria you just get a normal ring there is no special engagement ring or anything like that
An uncut diamond can be weighed just like any other diamond. One carat is equal to 1/5 of a gram (200 milligrams). The uncut stone, however, must not have any other matter attached to the diamond in order to register a true carat weight for the diamond stone. The weight of the raw stone will not represent the weight of the finished stone as the cutting and polishing processes will remove material to create the facets and shape.
Almas appears to be a creature which is not seen often these days. So, no: Almas is not an uncut diamond.
it is important because it is the largest uncut diamond ever discovered.