Just For Diamonds

The Hope Diamond (previously “Le bleu de France”) is a large, 45.52 carats (9.10 g),deep-blue diamond, housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. The Hope Diamond is blue to the naked eye because of trace amounts of boron within its crystal structure, but it exhibits red phosphorescence after exposure to ultraviolet light.It [...]

Carbonados, or black diamonds, have long been a mystery. They’re the oldest, toughest and rarest diamonds around. Now, some researchers have a theory about its origin, and it’s out of this world, literally.
Stephen Haggerty, Ph.D., a geoscientist at Florida International University in Miami, has been studying black diamonds for more than a decade. Dr. Haggerty [...]