What is Diamond?
1.
Crystalized carbon. Diamond is a cubic mineral, like gold, spinel, fluorite, etc. Its ideal crystal shape is eight-sided -- two pyramids attached to each other. Its refractive index is 2.42, as opposed to cubic zirconia which is 2.15; sapphire and ruby which are 1.77; emerald, aquamarine, heliodore and morganite which are 1.57, and so on.
Diamond is rated as a 10 on the Mohs hardness scale, but only because it is the only natural gem harder than corundum (sapphire and ruby) which are a 9 on the scale. In reality, diamond is more like a 41 -- its not just a little harder than corundum, but mucher harder.
Diamonds are mined in South Africa, Australia, Siberia, Canada, Brazil and a few other lesser places. Most gem-quality diamonds mined are a light yellow or light brown color, but the stones occur naturally in every color of the rainbow, including colorless (which is the most popular for jewelry), milky translucent white and opaque black.
The Dresden Green, medium green, 41 cts.
The Tiffany Yellow, yellow, 128 cts.
The Wittelsbach, medium blue, 35 cts.
Jennifer Lopez's pink diamond, 6 cts.
The Amsterdam, black, 33 cts.
The Hope, dark blue, 45 cts.
The Allnatt, golden yellow, 101 cts.
The Star of South Africa, colorless, 47 cts.
The Pumpkin, orange, 5 cts.
The Conde, pink, 9 carats.
The De Beers, light yellow, 234 cts.
The Incomparable, brownish-yellow, 407 cts.
The Copengagen, blue, 51 cts.
The Polar Star, colorless, 41 cts.
The Victoria-Transvaal, brownish-yellow, 67 cts.
The Millennium Star, colorless, 203 cts.
etc etc etc
2.
An over priced old rock that gets you laid until the effect wears off. Bigger is better.
My girlfriend wouldn't have anal sex with me until I gave her a diamond ring.
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3.
A girls best friend/ The hardest mineral on earth.
Diamonds are forever.
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4.
Someone that is precious to you. Someone that has rare qualities.
Toby is such a diamond. He gave me a rose for no reason.
5.
1) The hardest natural occuring form of the 6th element of the Periodic Table (Carbon). When cut properly it can appear to be very brilliant due its refractive index.
2) A playing field, in the shape of a square, where the corners are bases. Used to play baseball and variations of baseball, like T-Ball, softball, and kickball.
3) A 2D geometric shape with 4 sides of equal length, but with differing perpendicular angles. Actually a rhombus, but commonly called a diamond when a corner instead of a side is at the bottom.
1) It sparkled like diamonds.
2) Let's go to the diamond.
3) Draw a diamond.
6.
1. A male person that is flamboyantly homosexual.
2. A subliminal derogatory term used for male homosexuals.
3. Derived from the synonomous term that "a diamond is a girls best friend."
4. Originated in northern California in order to talk about homosexuals openly without sounding provokingly offensive.
That man is a 'diamond.'
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7.
n. Relatively common mineral, consisting of carbon, which is similar in appearance to zircon or cut glass. Used by the South African based De Beers company as a form of emotional blackmail through clever, original, and socially planted marketing techniques. It is asserted by the De Beers company that a man who is unwilling to waste a huge amount of money for a worthless piece of carbon must not really love his future wife very much.
(See also organic food.)
"Diamonds are a complete scam"
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