Mother Nature makes diamonds from carbon using intense high pressure and extreme heat deep within the earth's mantle.
Diamond hardness is its field test; it is the hardest natural mineral on earth.
It isn't the element (carbon) that makes a diamond valuable: it's the availability of the diamond allotrope of carbon, and its limited occurrence on earth.
Carbon is the only element necessarily contained in diamond and graphite.
The pattern of atoms within the diamond mineral and their strong co-valent bonds.
Carbon
Traces of nitrogen held within the network of carbon atoms gives a diamond its yellow characteristic.
Constellation makes Diamond White
A white diamond is unique as it is very rare to find in nature. They can be manufactured, but these can easily be distinguished. This makes the white diamond very expensive.
Diamond Pet Foods makes Kirkland for Costco. Diamond Pet Foods makes Kirkland for Costco.
a diamond
Most diamonds are used in industry and not in jewelry. Their hardness makes diamond useful as a cutting tool.
Diamond's atomic structure makes it the hardest mineral known.
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a diamond
A diamond is absolutely beautiful, even when in the raw. It is a native Element, and the Element that makes up a mineral diamond is carbon.
diamond is harder than silver
diamond is harder than silver
It isn't the element (carbon) that makes a diamond valuable: it's the availability of the diamond allotrope of carbon, and its limited occurrence on earth.