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'White' diamonds are available in colours described from D to Z. Coloured diamonds may be rated in 27 categories, according to gemologists, including:
- Red,
- Orangish-Red,
- Reddish-Orange,
- Orange,
- Yellowish-Orange,
- Yellow-Orange,
- Orange-Yellow,
- Orangish-Yellow,
- Yellow,
- Greenish-Yellow,
- Green-Yellow,
- Yellow-Green,
- Yellowish-Green,
- Green,
- Bluish-Green,
- Blue-Green,
- Green-Blue,
- Greenish-Blue,
- Blue,
- Violetish-Blue,
- Bluish-Violet,
- Violet,
- Purple,
- Reddish-Purple,
- Red-Purple,
- Purple-Red,
- Purplish-Red
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Are chocolate diamonds actually made out of chocolate?
No, chocolate diamonds are not made out of chocolate. They are a marketing term used to describe brown diamonds that have a rich, deep color resembling that of chocolate. These diamonds are natural diamonds that have not been treated or altered to achieve their brown hue.
What colors are in a diamond?
Diamonds can come in a variety of colors, including white, yellow, brown, blue, pink, and green. The presence of certain impurities or structural defects in the crystal lattice can give rise to these different colors. The rarest and most valuable diamonds are those with intense and vivid hues such as red, purple, and orange.
What is the color and luster of a diamond?
Diamonds are adamantine to waxy in luster. Diamonds come in all colours, and varying shades of colours, including yellows, browns, grays, and also white, blue, black, reddish, greenish and colorless.
Why do some diamonds have color?
During the formation process -- from carbon -- diamonds can include other minerals, including nitrogen = yellow; boron = blue; nickel, and neighborhood radiation = green and so forth. Brown diamonds occur when the diamond molecular structure is flawed. Other colours -- pink and purple, for example, are currently attributed to plastic deformation after being formed that occurs when the material is erupted to earth's surface. The GIA lists 27 different colours and shades of colours, depending on the intensity of the colour.
Are chocolate diamonds the same as regular diamonds?
No, chocolate diamonds are a marketing term used by Le Vian to describe brown diamonds. They are still real diamonds but have a distinct brown color due to the presence of nitrogen impurities. Regular diamonds can come in a variety of colors but are most commonly white or colorless.
What is the color of the diamond stone?
Raw diamonds come in all the colours imaginable -- from 'white' or 'colourless' -- which has its own range of colours, to diamonds in all the colours and intensity of colour, of the rainbow. You can read more, below.
How are diamonds classified in terms of color?
The "traditional" diamond is colourless and transparent. However, diamonds come in a variety of colours including pink, brown, black, yellow, and red.
What kind of diamonds are found in Australia?
Diamonds mined in Australia, in addition to white diamonds, also produce the brown colours and the pink colours. You can read more, below.
What is the natural colour of a diamond?
Natural diamonds come in all the colours of the rainbow. As well, there are many shades of 'white' diamond.
What colours goes best with diamonds?
I think its black as it contrast more with diamonds
Are candy colored diamonds natural?
Your question can be answered if you clarify what you mean by 'candy coloured'. Natural colours for diamonds are listed in a list of 27 entries, some of which may correspond to colours of some 'candy'. In addition, there are nine intensities of these colours. You can read more about natural diamond colours, below. Apparently, a commercial jeweler is advertising 'candy coloured' diamonds, all of which are enhanced to produce these colours. Enhanced diamonds are less valuable than naturally coloured or unenhanced diamonds.
Can 5 pointed stars be found on raw diamonds?
Raw diamonds come in many forms, sizes, colours and mixtures of geological materials.Take your raw diamond to a certified gemologist, who can help you identify the stone.
How do diamonds change their color?
reflect a rainbow of colours
What is the hues of nature in a diamond?
If 'hues of nature' is a descriptive phrase indicating natural colours, then you can report reflections and refractions from light bouncing off a cut diamond -- being all the colours of the rainbow -- as 'hues of nature'. As well, natural diamonds come in at least 27 named colours -- all hues of nature. You can read more about natural coloured diamonds, below.
Are African diamonds inexpensive?
Every gem-quality diamond is valued according to its cut, colour, clarity and carat weight, regardless of its continent of origin. Some of the largest and clearest diamonds, including some of astonishing vivid colours come from Africa. These are the most expensive of diamonds. Examples are the Cullinan and the Blue Moon diamonds.
How are color diamonds made?
Diamonds are formed deep within the earth's mantel. When other elements are included in the formation process, the diamond can possess a colour. Most gem-quality diamonds include nitrogen, which colours the stone yellow. Boron colours a diamond blue, for example.
How do diamonds get their coulor?
Diamonds' colours are caused by abnormalities in formation, or by the inclusion of trace minerals within the atomic structure of the carbon atoms.
