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Most diamonds are not conductors, they are rather good insulators of electricity. The one exception is blue diamond, which is blue due to the addition of boron being included in the crystal lattice (normally, occasionally an excess of hydrogen can turn them blue as well but rare). The boron allows it to become a p-conductor, and thus it will conduct electricity. Note that one way to tell a real (boron doped) blue diamond from say a white diamond that has been colored blue (by irradiation, coating, etc), is to see if it will conduct electricity.

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