what is a diamond's texture?
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originally it is rough,then,when it is cut and polished,it is smooth,it may be pauvee,dust like,or turned into a drill bit or glass cutter.
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Diamond is in the Native Elements Group of minerals. In order to test the streak it is required to have a substance harder than the substance requiring the streak, and no naturally occurring substance is harder than diamond. Even if there was a harder mineral, the amount of force needed to powder a diamond is so huge that it would take specialized machinery at do it.
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Diamond is carbon in its most concentrated form. Except for trace impurities like boron and nitrogen, diamond is composed solely of carbon, the chemical element that is fundamental to all life.\n\nBut diamond is distinctly different from its close cousins the common mineral graphite and lonsdaleite, both of which are also composed of carbon. Why is diamond the hardest surface known while graphite is exceedingly soft? Why is diamond transparent while graphite is opaque and metallic black? What is it that makes diamond so unique? \n\nThe key to these questions lie in diamond's particular arrangement of carbon atoms or its crystal structure--the feature that defines any mineral's fundamental properties. A crystal is a solid body formed from the bonding of atomic elements or compounds in a repeating arrangement. Often, crystals possess smooth external faces. Due to their symmetrical and finite nature, the building blocks of crystals are limited to relatively small numbers of atoms, and their chemical compositions to simple numerical combinations of elements.\n\nA neutral carbon atom has 6 protons and 6 electrons surrounding its nucleus. Four of the electrons in a carbon atom are valence electrons, which are electrons that are available to form bonds with other atoms. In graphite, each carbon atom bonds only 3 of its 4 valence electrons with neighboring carbons. The resulting structure of these bonds is a flat sheet of connected carbon atoms. Though individually strong, these layers are only weakly connected to one another, and the ease with which they are separated is what makes graphite so slippery.\n \nIn diamond however, every carbon shares all 4 of its available electrons with adjacent carbon atoms, forming a tetrahedral unit. This shared electron-pair bonding forms the strongest known chemical linkage, the covalent bond, which is responsible for many of diamond's superlative properties. The repeating structural unit of diamond consists of 8 atoms which are fundamentally arranged in a cube.\n\nUsing this cubic form and its highly symmetrical arrangement of atoms, diamond crystals can develop in a variety of different shapes known as "crystal habits." The octahedron, or eight-sided shape that we associate with diamonds is its most common crystal habit. But diamond crystals can also form cubes, dodecahedra, and even combinations of these shapes. All of these shapes are manifestations of the cubic crystal system to which the mineral diamond belongs. Two exceptions are the flat form called a macle, which is actually a composite crystal, and etched crystals, which have rounded surfaces and, sometimes, elongated shapes.\n\nReal diamond crystals don't have completely smooth faces. Trigons are triangular growths that reflect subtle changes in height on a diamond's face. The trigons shown here are slight indentations that were most likely produced by a natural etching of the crystal. However, raised trigons, which point in the same direction as the crystal face, may also occur from etching, dissolution, or as part of the natural growth of the crystal.\n\nDiamond is renowned for its hardness. Hardness is the measure of a substance's resistance to being scratched, and only a diamond can scratch another diamond. Diamond is the hardest substance known.\n\nHardness is not the only measure of a mineral's durability--the relative resistance to fracture is another. Although diamond is not fragile or prone to breaking apart, all substances including diamond can fracture or shatter. Due to its particular crystal structure, diamond has certain planes of weakness along which it can be split. Diamond is said to have perfect cleavage in four different directions, meaning it will separate neatly along these lines rather than in a jagged or irregular fashion. This is because the diamond crystal has fewer chemical bonds along the plane of its octahedral face than in other directions. Diamond cutters take advantage
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Diamond. It is pure carbon.
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I think that Diamond is a generic brand of foil and is quite thin. If should be an address to write to on the box of foil. You could also inquire at the store where you purchased the foil--they should atleast be able to give you address from their shipment roster.
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How about one of these on this page?\nhttp://jewelry.about.com/cs/thefourcs/tp/diamonds.htm
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The solid phase.  Water is an exception.\nAlso some materials has more than one solid phase, such as carbon which has different structures and therefore different densities for graphic as opposed to diamond.
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Look at this site for all your needs of the subject:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond
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Diamonds are not forever\n\nPhysicists in Germany have created a material that is harder than diamond. Natalia Dubrovinskaia and colleagues at the University of Bayreuth made the new material by subjecting carbon-60 molecules to immense pressures. The new form of carbon, which is known as aggregated diamond nanorods, is expected to have many industrial applications (App. Phys. Lett. 87 083106).\n\nThe hardness of a material is measured by its isothermal bulk modulus. Aggregated diamond nanorods have a modulus of 491 gigapascals (GPa), compared with 442 GPa for conventional diamond. Dubrovinskaia and two of her co-workers - Leonid Dubrovinky and Falko Langenhorst - have patented the process used to make the new material.\n\nDiamond derives its hardness from the fact that each carbon atom is connected to four other atoms by strong covalent bonds. The new material is different in that it is made of tiny interlocking diamond rods. Each rod is a crystal that has a diameter of between 5 and 20 nanometres and a length of about 1 micron.
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Diamonds can scratch glass...I don't believe zirconium has the same property.  You can tell with pearls if you rub them against your teeth...real ones are gritty feeling, fake ones are smooth.\n\nAs for the others, I think it requires a gemologist or someone well versed in dealing with gems.
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Diamond is one of the two best known forms (or allotropes) of carbon, whose hardness and high dispersion of light makes it useful for industrial applications and jewelry (the other equally well known allotrope is graphite). Diamonds are specifically renowned as a mineral with superlative physical qualities - they make excellent abrasives because they can only be scratched by other diamonds, which also means they hold a polish extremely well and retain luster. About 130 million carats (26,000 kg) are mined annually, with a total value of nearly USD $9 billion.\n\nThe name "diamond" derives from the ancient Greek adamas (αδάμας; "impossible to tame"). They have been treasured as gems since their use as religious icons in India at least 2,500 years ago—and usage in drill bits and engraving tools also dates to early human history. Popularity of diamonds has risen since the 19th century because of improved cutting and polishing techniques, and they are commonly judged by the "four Cs": carat, clarity, color, and cut. Although nearly four times the mass of natural diamonds are produced as synthetic diamond each year, the vast majority of synthetic diamond production remains small, imperfect diamonds suitable only for industrial-grade use, with gem-quality synthetic diamonds only recently becoming available.
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The four C's are used to determine a diamond's rarity and value, according to the Jewelry Information Group, a non-profit trade association based in New York.\n\nCut refers to the shape of the diamond and the number of its facets - or flat, polished surfaces. Each diamond cut should be precise to best show the stone's brilliance. A well-cut diamond reflects the light and refracts it back to your eye.\n\nClarity is determined by a diamond's internal imperfections and external irregularities, which interfere with the passage of light through the stone. Called inclusions, they can be spots, lines or bubbles. The fewer inclusions, the greater the value of the stone.\n\nCarat is a diamond's weight, not size, as many people believe. One carat equals 200 milligrams - the heavier a diamond, the greater its rarity and, usually, value.\n\nColor is also a value-determining factor. Diamonds can come in a variety of colors, but colorless stones are most rare and expensive. Diamonds are graded on a color scale, from D (colorless) to Z, established by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). The further down the alphabet, the more yellow and less valuable the stone is.
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1. A diamond is a specific type of crystal form of Carbon (contrary to what some people say and what some have answered:  a diamond was NEVER coal -- the only similarity is that they both contain carbon.)\n2. You cannot "make" a diamond out of a crystal.\n3. You can try to cut a crystal to maybe resemble a cut diamond, but no one would ever confuse the two.\n4. Crystals have certain alignments of the crystal facies along which the crystal will split -- it is along these facies that an expert will "cut" a crystal to get a specific shape.
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A Corundum Ruby cause it's #9 om the hardness scale of minerals right under diamonds #10.
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It depends on what you mean by "simulated" diamonds.  If you mean something like cubic zirconium then the answer is no, they are not real diamonds.  However, if you mean man made diamonds, then the answer is yes, they are real diamonds.  Man made diamonds are made of the same material, have the same crystalline structure and have all of the same characteristics as a natural diamond.  Its simply a matter of them having been formed in a laboratory and "real" or natural diamonds having formed in nature.  Both methods require extreme heat and pressure but yield the same material.  Man made diamonds have fewer inclusions and flaws than natural diamonds.  A man made diamond,even though it is the exact same thing as a natural diamond, can only be sold as a man made diamond and can never be represented as a natural diamond.
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Lab diamonds (brand name diamonique) are chemically like diamonds from nature except that they are perfect, unlike natural diamonds which have subtle imperfections.  They are cheaper because, unlike their natural counterparts that take thousands of years and the perfect set of conditions to form,  man-made diamonds can be grown in hours/days (1 karat in 24 hours)....and it requires a lot less people, which means less paychecks.
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Please visit the following site :\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture\nYou'll get the full details about all the various kinds of 'textures' !