Check out the Most MYSTERIOUS Things Found Inside DIAMONDS! From the largest diamonds ever found to amazing discoveries made inside, this top 10 list of facts about diamonds might just surprise you!
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10. Harzburgite Inclusions
Harzburgite inclusions are a form of peridot-ite rocks, which are the most common rocks in the Earth’s mantle. These inclusions are so common that scientists are able to date diamonds by dating the inclusions inside of them.
At Amsterdam’s Vrije University, scientists have been studying 26 diamonds with Harzburgite inclusions. They’ve determined that nine of these diamonds were formed three billion years ago when the mega continent Pangaea broke apart into smaller continents.
9. Boron Molecules
There are four qualities that determine the value of a diamond but you probably know this already. Cut, color, carat and, everybody say it with me know! Clarity. Good! Carat is the weight of a diamond, and it’s an obvious basis for value. The heavier the diamond, the bigger it is, and therefore usually the more it costs. Color is important because some colors are rarer than others. The two rarest diamond colors are blue and red.
8. Kyanite
Another molecule that turns diamonds blue is kyanite, which is a semiprecious stone in its own right. It’s rare, but sometimes diamonds contain kyanite, which most often turns the diamond blue. Kyanite is used in heat-resistant ceramics and can be found in sinks and bathroom fixtures. It is also used in manufacturing where heat resistance is important.
7. Extra-terrestrial Carbon
Pure carbon exists in three forms: graphite, buckminsterfullerene, and, of course, diamonds. There are two other forms of carbon, as well, and their existence was postulated long before it was proven.
These two other forms are made of mutated carbon atoms, which have the distinction of being harder than diamond.
6. Carbon-12
In 1983, 22 diamonds were found in the Jack Hills in Western Australia. These diamonds were made of carbon-12, also known as light carbon, which is only formed from living organisms. Earth is estimated to be about 4.54 billion years old, and scientists from UCLA just recently shared with the public that they had found biogenic carbon that dates back to 4.1 billion years.
5. Calcium Silicate Perovskite
Calcium silicate perovskite makes up almost 38% of the Earth’s volume, but it’s still incredibly rare to find. The best sample that scientists have obtained came from a meteorite. Here on Earth, it’s the fourth most common substance, but when it gets closer than 400 miles to the surface, it becomes unstable and breaks down. Stable samples of calcium silicate perovskite are hard to obtain because the mineral can only exist deep in the Earth’s mantle, too deep to reach through drilling.
4. Ferropericlase
The Earth’s mantle is extremely thick, and most diamonds are formed in the upper and middle bands. It’s very rare for diamonds to be found that were formed in the deepest levels of the mantle. The Gemological Institute of America (GIA), however, thinks they’ve found some from this superdeep level based on the discovery of diamonds with Ferropericlase.
3. Ringwoodite
Geologists speculate that there’s an ocean trapped inside the Earth’s mantle, 320 miles inside the planet. Or at least a very, very large amount of water that is trapped in a specific layer of the deep Earth. The ocean in question is held within a green mineral called ringwoodite, which only exists in an area between the upper and lower mantle called the transition zone.
2. Ice-VII
There are several different types of ice in the world. The standard ice for us, the kind we put into our drinks, is called ice-I, and its oxygen atoms form hexagons. If ice-I is put under pressure, it converts to ice-II,. More pressure makes ice-III, and so on. So you can imagine Ice-VII!! It is actually created in the laboratory, and scientists believe it is common on icy moons like Titan and Europa. They never believed that it existed naturally on Earth.
1. Liquid Metals
Like water, metals can be caught inside diamonds as they form. These little impurities or inclusions make jewelers discard them diamonds as subpar, but to scientists, these impurities can speak volumes.
Large diamonds containing metal inclusions are rare. There have been 53 diamonds found with these impurities inside them.
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