Because of the way the stone is cut. Light entering the stone is refracted or bent, this splits white light into its full spectrum from red to violet.
White light is composed from all the colours shown in a rainbow. The facets on a diamond acts like a prism and separates the white light into a flash of rainbow colours.
Diamond streak is white.
Well, I wasn't actually there, so I didn't observe anything. But from my education and personal experience, I know that the product of the wavelength and frequency of any wave is the wave's speed. So I should expect that the product of wavelength and frequency for any color of light, and for that matter, any electromagnetic wave, is always the same number, and ought to always be very close to the speed of light in the medium in which you observed it, or would have observed it had you been there.
The lightest color is white, but the brightest color is yellow.
All light is white. The color red mixes with the color blue which makes the color magenta. The color green mixes with the color red to make the color yellow. The color blue mixes with the color green to make the color cyan. The colors magenta, yellow and cyan mix together to make the color white. (see related image link below)
White light is composed from all the colours shown in a rainbow. The facets on a diamond acts like a prism and separates the white light into a flash of rainbow colours.
White light is composed from all the colours shown in a rainbow. The facets on a diamond acts like a prism and separates the white light into a flash of rainbow colours.
Once cut and polished, a diamond is designed to reflect light like a prism from every facet in the stone.
how does a diamond get its color
The characteristics that can be observed such as hair color, seed shape, and flower color are GENETICS.
Red color
You can get a diamond color enhanced through coating or polishing.
The same color as ordinary waffles.
Diamond streak is white.
The rarest color is bright apple green with flashes of the red, gold and orange fire.
black
The pure natural diamond has not color, is as a glass.