Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Interesting Facts About Diamond Jewelry

By Don Pedro

If you have ever seen a diamond before, will have a good idea why it is so expensive as a jewel. If you have touched one before, you never again want to let it go. If you have the money to afford a diamond ring, I know you'll want one on your finger.

I know your wife loves you and all, but diamonds are indeed a girl's best friend. If you really want to make her day, buy her a stud for your next wedding anniversary. She'll love you more than you ever can imagine. Diamond jewelries are indeed real beauties to behold and to possess.

With a diamond, you know where you stand. I mean, you can't duplicate the thing, so you know that when you hold it, it is the true thing. No other stone can boast of such perpetuity. So diamond costs the most. How do you like that?

It is not easy, looking at any diamond, to imagine them as being typically billions of years old. But that exactly is what they are. They have been buried in the earth forever, but now they are free, more beautiful than you could imagine. Picture one against the warmth of your flesh; now don't you just feel like royalty?

Few people know that about half of a natural diamond's size is lost in diamond cutting. First, the stone is cleaved and sawed through cracks and cleavages, before the laser is used on them. You can hardly destroy the stone, but you can damage the pattern you are trying to create if you are not careful..

The best things in life are free, some say. And in a sense they are, until one man gets to it and puts a price upon it. Diamonds are free for whoever finds them first, and then they cost a fortune, prize for the highest bidder.

Kimberlitic diamonds are the ones that are born where diamonds belong: at the crust, in the soul of the earth. They are the pure ones that make priceless jewels that sell for millions of dollars. The other types - ones made in less deep parts, and brought to the surface by tectonic activity - instead consist of microdiamonds that are less than 1 mm in diameter. Not your ideal jewel material.

During the rapid ascent of molten magma to Earth's surface, they bring up diamonds that have already been formed in the earth by ages of temperature and pressure. They harden when they settle on the surface, and that is why we sometimes have to mine for the jewel. But it is well worth it, if only to possess the priceless gems.

There are all kinds of diamonds. You've got white, black, red, pink and blue. Black diamonds are called carbonados. Most people don't believe they come from earth, although how they got here then beats me. - 16651

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