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{{Mineral
| name=Diamond
| image=Rough_diamond.jpg
| cdesc=Carbon
| formula=C
| birefringence=None
| colors=Colorless. Impurities may produce pink, yellow, brown
| chabit=Octahedral
| csystem=Cubic
| cleavage=Perfect in four directions
| dispersion=0.044
| fracture=Conchoidal - step like
| hardness=10
| luster=Adamantine
| luminescence=
| nameorigin=Ancient Greek ''adamas'' - "invincible".
| optics=Singly refractive
| pleochroism=None
| sgravity=3.52
| spectral=In pale yellow stones a 415.5 nm line is typical. Irradiated and annealed diamonds often show a line around 594 nm when cooled to low temperatures.
| streak=Colorless
{|}
}}
'''Diamond''' is an [[allotrope]] of [[carbon]], noted for being the hardest material on the [[hardness|Moh's Scale]], and also fairly rare (deposits are found in [[Kimberlite]] in [[South Africa]]). As such, natural diamonds are used for jewelry, and synthetic ones for drill bits.
'''Diamond''' is an [[allotrope]] of [[carbon]], noted for being the hardest material on the [[hardness|Moh's Scale]], and also fairly rare (deposits are found in [[Kimberlite]] in [[South Africa]]). As such, natural diamonds are used for jewelry, and synthetic ones for drill bits.
[[Category:Minerals]]
==External Links==
[http://www.minelinks.com/alluvial/diamonds.html Minelinks.com - Diamonds]