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352 relations: Abrasive, Adornment, Aeromagnetic survey, Aggregated diamond nanorod, Algoman orogeny, Allotropes of carbon, Allotropy, Alloy, Alluvium, Alrosa, Amphibole, Amsterdam, Angstrom, Annealing (materials science), Antoine Lavoisier, Antwerp diamond district, Antwerpsche Diamantkring, Applied Physics Letters, Argon–argon dating, Argyle diamond mine, Arkansas, Aspect ratio, Australia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Bain & Company, Ballas, Band gap, Basalt, Bearing (mechanical), Belgium, BHP, Bingara, New South Wales, Biotite, Blood diamond, Blue diamond, Boron, Boron nitride, Bort, Botswana, Brazil, Breccia, British Geological Survey, Butterworth-Heinemann, Calcite, Calcium, Cambridge University Press, Canada, Carat (mass), Carbide, Carbon, ... Expand index (302 more) »
- Abrasives
- Group IV semiconductors
- Impact event minerals
- Minerals in space group 227
- Transparent materials
Abrasive
An abrasive is a material, often a mineral, that is used to shape or finish a workpiece through rubbing which leads to part of the workpiece being worn away by friction. Diamond and abrasive are abrasives.
Adornment
An adornment is generally an accessory or ornament worn to enhance the beauty or status of the wearer.
Aeromagnetic survey
An aeromagnetic survey is a common type of geophysical survey carried out using a magnetometer aboard or towed behind an aircraft.
See Diamond and Aeromagnetic survey
Aggregated diamond nanorod
Aggregated diamond nanorods, or ADNRs, are a nanocrystalline form of diamond, also known as nanodiamond or hyperdiamond.
See Diamond and Aggregated diamond nanorod
Algoman orogeny
The Algoman orogeny, known as the Kenoran orogeny in Canada, was an episode of mountain-building (orogeny) during the Late Archean Eon that involved repeated episodes of continental collisions, compressions and subductions.
See Diamond and Algoman orogeny
Allotropes of carbon
Carbon is capable of forming many allotropes (structurally different forms of the same element) due to its valency.
See Diamond and Allotropes of carbon
Allotropy
Allotropy or allotropism is the property of some chemical elements to exist in two or more different forms, in the same physical state, known as allotropes of the elements.
Alloy
An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which in most cases at least one is a metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described.
Alluvium
Alluvium is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings.
Alrosa
Alrosa (АЛРОСА) is a Russian group of diamond mining companies that specialize in exploration, mining, manufacture, and sale of diamonds.
Amphibole
Amphibole is a group of inosilicate minerals, forming prism or needlelike crystals, composed of double chain tetrahedra, linked at the vertices and generally containing ions of iron and/or magnesium in their structures.
Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
Angstrom
The angstrom is a unit of length equal to m; that is, one ten-billionth of a metre, a hundred-millionth of a centimetre, 0.1 nanometre, or 100 picometres.
Annealing (materials science)
In metallurgy and materials science, annealing is a heat treatment that alters the physical and sometimes chemical properties of a material to increase its ductility and reduce its hardness, making it more workable.
See Diamond and Annealing (materials science)
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 17438 May 1794), CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
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Antwerp diamond district
Antwerp's diamond district, also known as the Diamond Quarter (Diamantkwartier), and dubbed the Square Mile, is an area within the city of Antwerp, Belgium.
See Diamond and Antwerp diamond district
Antwerpsche Diamantkring
The Antwerpsche Diamantkring was established in 1928 in Antwerp, Belgium, to become the first diamond bourse worldwide that is dedicated exclusively to rough diamonds trade.
See Diamond and Antwerpsche Diamantkring
Applied Physics Letters
Applied Physics Letters is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by the American Institute of Physics.
See Diamond and Applied Physics Letters
Argon–argon dating
Argon–argon (or 40Ar/39Ar) dating is a radiometric dating method invented to supersede potassiumndashargon (K/Ar) dating in accuracy.
See Diamond and Argon–argon dating
Argyle diamond mine
The Argyle Diamond Mine was a diamond mine located in the East Kimberley region in the remote north of Western Australia.
See Diamond and Argyle diamond mine
Arkansas
Arkansas is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States.
Aspect ratio
The aspect ratio of a geometric shape is the ratio of its sizes in different dimensions.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.
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Bain & Company
Bain & Company is an American management consulting company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Ballas
Ballas (or shot bort) is a diamond industry term for roughly spherical shards of non-gem-grade diamond, mostly mined in Brazil and South Africa.
Band gap
In solid-state physics and solid-state chemistry, a band gap, also called a bandgap or energy gap, is an energy range in a solid where no electronic states exist.
Basalt
Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon. Diamond and Basalt are industrial minerals.
Bearing (mechanical)
A ball bearing A bearing is a machine element that constrains relative motion to only the desired motion and reduces friction between moving parts.
See Diamond and Bearing (mechanical)
Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.
BHP
BHP, officially named BHP Group Limited and formerly known as BHP Billiton, is an Australian multinational mining and metals public company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.
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Bingara, New South Wales
Bingara (Aboriginal for 'creek') is a small town on the Gwydir River in Murchison County in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia.
See Diamond and Bingara, New South Wales
Biotite
Biotite is a common group of phyllosilicate minerals within the mica group, with the approximate chemical formula.
Blood diamond
Blood diamonds (also called conflict diamonds, brown diamonds, hot diamonds, or red diamonds) are diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, an invading army's war efforts, terrorism, or a warlord's activity.
Blue diamond
Blue diamond is a type of diamond which exhibits all of the same inherent properties of the mineral except with the additional element of blue color in the stone.
Boron
Boron is a chemical element; it has symbol B and atomic number 5.
Boron nitride
Boron nitride is a thermally and chemically resistant refractory compound of boron and nitrogen with the chemical formula BN. Diamond and boron nitride are abrasives.
Bort
Bort, boart, or boort is an umbrella term used in the diamond industry to refer to shards of non-gem-grade/quality diamonds.
See Diamond and Bort
Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
Breccia
Breccia is a rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.
British Geological Survey
The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research.
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Butterworth-Heinemann
Butterworth–Heinemann is a British publishing company specialised in professional information and learning materials for higher education and professional training, in printed and electronic forms.
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Calcite
Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Diamond and Calcite are luminescent minerals and transparent materials.
Calcium
Calcium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ca and atomic number 20.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
See Diamond and Cambridge University Press
Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Carat (mass)
The carat (ct) is a unit of mass equal to, which is used for measuring gemstones and pearls.
Carbide
In chemistry, a carbide usually describes a compound composed of carbon and a metal.
Carbon
Carbon is a chemical element; it has symbol C and atomic number 6. Diamond and Carbon are Native element minerals.
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
See Diamond and Carbon dioxide
Carbon flaw
A carbon flaw is a blemish present within a diamond crystalline form of carbon, usually seen as a black spot.
Carbon-12
Carbon-12 (12C) is the most abundant of the two stable isotopes of carbon (carbon-13 being the other), amounting to 98.93% of element carbon on Earth; its abundance is due to the triple-alpha process by which it is created in stars.
Carbon-13
Carbon-13 (13C) is a natural, stable isotope of carbon with a nucleus containing six protons and seven neutrons.
Carbonado
Carbonado, commonly known as black diamond, is one of the toughest forms of natural diamond.
Carbonate
A carbonate is a salt of carbonic acid,, characterized by the presence of the carbonate ion, a polyatomic ion with the formula.
Carbonatite
Carbonatite is a type of intrusive or extrusive igneous rock defined by mineralogic composition consisting of greater than 50% carbonate minerals.
Cathodoluminescence
Cathodoluminescence is an optical and electromagnetic phenomenon in which electrons impacting on a luminescent material such as a phosphor, cause the emission of photons which may have wavelengths in the visible spectrum.
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Cecil Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes (5 July 185326 March 1902) was an English mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.
Central Africa
Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent comprising various countries according to different definitions.
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Chemical & Engineering News
Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) is a weekly news magazine published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), providing professional and technical news and analysis in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering.
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Chemical stability
In chemistry, chemical stability is the thermodynamic stability of a chemical system.
See Diamond and Chemical stability
Chemical vapor deposition
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a vacuum deposition method used to produce high-quality, and high-performance, solid materials.
See Diamond and Chemical vapor deposition
Clastic rock
Clastic rocks are composed of fragments, or clasts, of pre-existing minerals and rock.
Cleavage (crystal)
Cleavage, in mineralogy and materials science, is the tendency of crystalline materials to split along definite crystallographic structural planes.
See Diamond and Cleavage (crystal)
CNBC
CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Diamond and coal are Economic geology.
See Diamond and Coal
Coast
A coastalso called the coastline, shoreline, or seashoreis the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.
Cobalt
Cobalt is a chemical element; it has symbol Co and atomic number 27. Diamond and Cobalt are Native element minerals.
Colorado
Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Compressibility
In thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, the compressibility (also known as the coefficient of compressibility or, if the temperature is held constant, the isothermal compressibility) is a measure of the instantaneous relative volume change of a fluid or solid as a response to a pressure (or mean stress) change.
See Diamond and Compressibility
Copeton Dam
Copeton Dam is a major clay core and rock fill embankment dam with nine radial gates and a gated concrete chute spillway across the Gwydir River upstream of Bingara in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia.
Crater of Diamonds State Park
Crater of Diamonds State Park is a Arkansas state park in Pike County, Arkansas, in the United States.
See Diamond and Crater of Diamonds State Park
Craton
A craton (or; from κράτος "strength") is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere, which consists of Earth's two topmost layers, the crust and the uppermost mantle.
Crystal growth
A crystal is a solid material whose constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are arranged in an orderly repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions. Diamond and crystal growth are crystals.
See Diamond and Crystal growth
Crystal structure
In crystallography, crystal structure is a description of ordered arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules in a crystalline material. Diamond and crystal structure are crystals.
See Diamond and Crystal structure
Crystal twinning
Crystal twinning occurs when two or more adjacent crystals of the same mineral are oriented so that they share some of the same crystal lattice points in a symmetrical manner.
See Diamond and Crystal twinning
Crystallographic defect
A crystallographic defect is an interruption of the regular patterns of arrangement of atoms or molecules in crystalline solids.
See Diamond and Crystallographic defect
Cube
In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces.
See Diamond and Cube
Cubic crystal system
In crystallography, the cubic (or isometric) crystal system is a crystal system where the unit cell is in the shape of a cube.
See Diamond and Cubic crystal system
Cubic zirconia
Cubic zirconia (abbreviated CZ) is the cubic crystalline form of zirconium dioxide (ZrO2). Diamond and cubic zirconia are crystals.
See Diamond and Cubic zirconia
De Beers
The De Beers Group is a South African-British corporation that specializes in the diamond industry, including mining, exploitation, retail, inscription, grading, trading and industrial diamond manufacturing.
Decennial Mineral Exploration Conferences
The Decennial Mineral Exploration Conferences (DMEC) is a Canadian voluntary association dedicated to the advancement of geoscience applied to exploration for mineral resources. Diamond and Decennial Mineral Exploration Conferences are Economic geology.
See Diamond and Decennial Mineral Exploration Conferences
Deep carbon cycle
The deep carbon cycle (or slow carbon cycle) is geochemical cycle (movement) of carbon through the Earth's mantle and core.
See Diamond and Deep carbon cycle
Deformation (engineering)
In engineering, deformation (the change in size or shape of an object) may be elastic or plastic.
See Diamond and Deformation (engineering)
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.
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Der Spiegel (website)
() is a German news website.
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Detonation nanodiamond
Detonation nanodiamond (DND), also known as ultradispersed diamond (UDD), is diamond that originates from a detonation.
See Diamond and Detonation nanodiamond
Diamantaire
A diamantaire (French origin) could be a gem-quality diamond manufacturer or producer, master diamond cutter, and or a graduate gemologist specializing in diamonds.
Diamond (gemstone)
Diamond is a gemstone formed by cutting a raw diamond.
See Diamond and Diamond (gemstone)
Diamond anvil cell
A diamond anvil cell (DAC) is a high-pressure device used in geology, engineering, and materials science experiments.
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Diamond blade
A diamond blade is a saw blade which has diamonds fixed on its edge for cutting hard or abrasive materials.
Diamond clarity
Diamond clarity is the quality of diamonds that relates to the existence and visual appearance of internal characteristics of a diamond called inclusions, and surface defects, called blemishes.
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Diamond color
A chemically pure and structurally perfect diamond is perfectly transparent with no hue, or color.
Diamond cubic
In crystallography, the diamond cubic crystal structure is a repeating pattern of 8 atoms that certain materials may adopt as they solidify. Diamond and diamond cubic are minerals in space group 227.
Diamond cut
A diamond cut is a style or design guide used when shaping a diamond for polishing such as the brilliant cut.
Diamond cutting
Diamond cutting is the practice of shaping a diamond from a rough stone into a faceted gem.
See Diamond and Diamond cutting
Diamond district
A diamond district is an area where the cutting, polishing, and trade of diamonds and other gems takes place.
See Diamond and Diamond district
Diamond enhancement
Diamond enhancements are specific treatments, performed on natural diamonds (usually those already cut and polished into gems), which are designed to improve the visual gemological characteristics of the diamond in one or more ways.
See Diamond and Diamond enhancement
Diamond Exchange District
The Diamond Exchange District (Hebrew: מִתְחַם הַבּוּרְסָה, Mitham HaBursa, lit. "The Exchange District") is a diamond district and commercial area in Ramat Gan, a city located in the Tel Aviv District, Israel.
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Diamond simulant
A diamond simulant, diamond imitation or imitation diamond is an object or material with gemological characteristics similar to those of a diamond. Diamond and diamond simulant are crystals.
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Diamond Trading Company
The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) is the rough diamond sales and distribution arm of the De Beers Group.
See Diamond and Diamond Trading Company
Diamond-like carbon
Diamond-like carbon (DLC) is a class of amorphous carbon material that displays some of the typical properties of diamond.
See Diamond and Diamond-like carbon
Diamondoid
In chemistry, diamondoids are generalizations of the carbon cage molecule known as adamantane (C10H16), the smallest unit cage structure of the diamond crystal lattice.
Diavik Diamond Mine
The Diavik Diamond Mine is a diamond mine in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, about northeast of Yellowknife.
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Disdyakis dodecahedron
In geometry, a disdyakis dodecahedron, (also hexoctahedron, hexakis octahedron, octakis cube, octakis hexahedron, kisrhombic dodecahedron), is a Catalan solid with 48 faces and the dual to the Archimedean truncated cuboctahedron.
See Diamond and Disdyakis dodecahedron
Dispersion (optics)
In optics and in wave propagation in general, dispersion is the phenomenon in which the phase velocity of a wave depends on its frequency; sometimes the term chromatic dispersion is used for specificity to optics in particular.
See Diamond and Dispersion (optics)
Distribution (marketing)
Distribution is the process of making a product or service available for the consumer or business user who needs it, and a distributor is a business involved in the distribution stage of the value chain.
See Diamond and Distribution (marketing)
Doping (semiconductor)
In semiconductor production, doping is the intentional introduction of impurities into an intrinsic (undoped) semiconductor for the purpose of modulating its electrical, optical and structural properties.
See Diamond and Doping (semiconductor)
Drill bit
A drill bit is a cutting tool used in a drill to remove material to create holes, almost always of circular cross-section.
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
Eclogite
Eclogite is a metamorphic rock containing garnet (almandine-pyrope) hosted in a matrix of sodium-rich pyroxene (omphacite).
Electric arc
An electric arc (or arc discharge) is an electrical breakdown of a gas that produces a prolonged electrical discharge.
Electrical resistivity tomography
Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) or electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) is a geophysical technique for imaging sub-surface structures from electrical resistivity measurements made at the surface, or by electrodes in one or more boreholes.
See Diamond and Electrical resistivity tomography
Electronics
Electronics is a scientific and engineering discipline that studies and applies the principles of physics to design, create, and operate devices that manipulate electrons and other electrically charged particles.
Electronics Letters
Electronics Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published biweekly by the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
See Diamond and Electronics Letters
Ellendale Diamond Field
The Ellendale Diamond Field is a cluster of lamproite intrusions located 125 km ESE of Derby within the WNW trending Lennard Shelf to the south of the Kimberley Block in the West Kimberly region of Australia.
See Diamond and Ellendale Diamond Field
Embryophyte
The embryophytes are a clade of plants, also known as Embryophyta or land plants.
Engagement ring
An engagement ring, also known as a betrothal ring, is a ring indicating that the person wearing it is engaged to be married, especially in Western cultures.
See Diamond and Engagement ring
Euhedral and anhedral
Euhedral and anhedral are terms used to describe opposite properties in the formation of crystals.
See Diamond and Euhedral and anhedral
EUR-Lex
EUR-Lex is the official online database of European Union law and other public documents of the European Union (EU), published in 24 official languages of the EU.
Exchange (organized market)
An exchange, bourse, trading exchange or trading venue is an organized market where (especially) tradable securities, commodities, foreign exchange, futures, and options contracts are bought and sold.
See Diamond and Exchange (organized market)
Facet
Facets are flat faces on geometric shapes.
Far infrared
Far infrared (FIR) or long wave refers to a specific range within the infrared spectrum of electromagnetic radiation.
Ferrous
In chemistry, iron(II) refers to the element iron in its +2 oxidation state.
Fire point
The fire point, or combustion point, of a fuel is the lowest temperature at which the vapour of that fuel will continue to burn for at least five seconds after ignition by an open flame of standard dimension.
Fracking
Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid.
Fracture toughness
In materials science, fracture toughness is the critical stress intensity factor of a sharp crack where propagation of the crack suddenly becomes rapid and unlimited.
See Diamond and Fracture toughness
Garnet
Garnets are a group of silicate minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives. Diamond and Garnet are cubic minerals and industrial minerals.
Gemological Institute of America
The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) is a nonprofit institute based in Carlsbad, California.
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Geophysical survey
Geophysical survey is the systematic collection of geophysical data for spatial studies.
See Diamond and Geophysical survey
Geothermobarometry
Geothermobarometry is the methodology for estimating the pressure and temperature history of rocks (metamorphic, igneous or sedimentary).
See Diamond and Geothermobarometry
Germanium
Germanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ge and atomic number 32. Diamond and Germanium are group IV semiconductors.
Godavari River
The Godavari (ɡod̪aːʋəɾiː) is India's second longest river after the Ganga River and drains the third largest basin in India, covering about 10% of India's total geographical area. Its source is in Trimbakeshwar, Nashik, Maharashtra. It flows east for, draining the states of Maharashtra (48.6%), Telangana (18.8%), Andhra Pradesh (4.5%), Chhattisgarh (10.9%) and Odisha (5.7%).
See Diamond and Godavari River
Graphite
Graphite is a crystalline form of the element carbon. Diamond and Graphite are industrial minerals and Native element minerals.
Gravimetry
Gravimetry is the measurement of the strength of a gravitational field.
Grinding (abrasive cutting)
Grinding is a type of abrasive machining process which uses a grinding wheel as cutting tool.
See Diamond and Grinding (abrasive cutting)
Guerrilla News Network
Guerrilla News Network, Inc. (GNN) was a privately owned news website and television production company that operated from 2000 to 2009.
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Gujarat
Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.
Guntur district
Guntur district is one of the twenty six districts in the Coastal Andhra region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
See Diamond and Guntur district
Harzburgite
Harzburgite, an ultramafic, igneous rock, is a variety of peridotite consisting mostly of the two minerals olivine and low-calcium (Ca) pyroxene (enstatite); it is named for occurrences in the Harz Mountains of Germany.
Hearts and arrows
Hearts and arrows (H&A) diamonds are precision-cut variations of the traditional 57-faceted round brilliant cut.
See Diamond and Hearts and arrows
Heat sink
A heat sink (also commonly spelled heatsink) is a passive heat exchanger that transfers the heat generated by an electronic or a mechanical device to a fluid medium, often air or a liquid coolant, where it is dissipated away from the device, thereby allowing regulation of the device's temperature.
Hermann–Mauguin notation
In geometry, Hermann–Mauguin notation is used to represent the symmetry elements in point groups, plane groups and space groups.
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Hot-filament ionization gauge
The hot-filament ionization gauge, sometimes called a hot-filament gauge or hot-cathode gauge, is the most widely used low-pressure (vacuum) measuring device for the region from 10−3 to 10−10 Torr.
See Diamond and Hot-filament ionization gauge
Human body temperature
Normal human body temperature (normothermia, euthermia) is the typical temperature range found in humans.
See Diamond and Human body temperature
Human history
Human history is the development of humankind from prehistory to the present.
Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.
Hydrocarbon
In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon.
Hydrogen
Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.
Hydrophile
A hydrophile is a molecule or other molecular entity that is attracted to water molecules and tends to be dissolved by water.
Hydrophobe
In chemistry, hydrophobicity is the physical property of a molecule that is seemingly repelled from a mass of water (known as a hydrophobe).
Ice
Ice is water that is frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 °C, 32 °F, or 273.15 K. It occurs naturally on Earth, on other planets, in Oort cloud objects, and as interstellar ice. Diamond and ice are crystals and transparent materials.
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Ice giant
An ice giant is a giant planet composed mainly of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, such as oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur.
Icon
An icon is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Catholic churches.
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Igneous rock
Igneous rock, or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.
Inclusion (mineral)
In mineralogy, an inclusion is any material trapped inside a mineral during its formation.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indiana
Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.
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Institution of Engineering and Technology
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is a multidisciplinary professional engineering institution.
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Insulator (electricity)
An electrical insulator is a material in which electric current does not flow freely.
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International Gemological Institute
International Gemological Institute (IGI) is a Belgian diamond, colored stone and jewelry certification organization.
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Intrusive rock
Intrusive rock is formed when magma penetrates existing rock, crystallizes, and solidifies underground to form intrusions, such as batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.
See Diamond and Intrusive rock
Irradiation
Irradiation is the process by which an object is exposed to radiation.
Jwaneng diamond mine
The Jwaneng diamond mine is the richest diamond mine in the world, and also the second largest in the world.
See Diamond and Jwaneng diamond mine
Kalsilite
Kalsilite (KAlSiO4) is a vitreous white to grey feldspathoidal mineral that is found in some potassium-rich lavas, such as from Chamengo Crater in Uganda.
Kimberley Process Certification Scheme
The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) is the process established in 2003 to prevent "conflict diamonds" from entering the mainstream rough diamond market by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 55/56 following recommendations in the Fowler Report.
See Diamond and Kimberley Process Certification Scheme
Kimberley, Northern Cape
Kimberley is the capital and largest city of the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
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Kimberlite
Kimberlite, an igneous rock and a rare variant of peridotite, is most commonly known to be the main host matrix for diamonds. Diamond and Kimberlite are Economic geology.
Krishna district
Krishna district is a district in the coastal Andhra Region in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, with Machilipatnam as its administrative headquarters.
See Diamond and Krishna district
Krishna River
The Krishna River in the Deccan plateau is the third-longest river in India, after the Ganges and Godavari.
Lamproite
Lamproite is an ultrapotassic mantle-derived volcanic or subvolcanic rock. Diamond and Lamproite are Economic geology.
Lamprophyre
Lamprophyres are uncommon, small-volume ultrapotassic igneous rocks primarily occurring as dikes, lopoliths, laccoliths, stocks, and small intrusions.
Laser
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.
Lherzolite
Lherzolite is a type of ultramafic igneous rock.
Lipophilicity
Lipophilicity (from Greek λίπος "fat" and φίλος "friendly") is the ability of a chemical compound to dissolve in fats, oils, lipids, and non-polar solvents such as hexane or toluene.
List of diamond mines
There are a limited number of commercially available diamond mines currently operating in the world, with the 50 largest mines accounting for approximately 90% of global supply.
See Diamond and List of diamond mines
List of diamonds
Diamonds occur naturally and vary in size, color, and quality, so the largest of a particular color may not be large in absolute terms, but may still be considered very desirable.
See Diamond and List of diamonds
List of largest rough diamonds
This is a partial list of the largest non-synthetic diamonds with a rough stone (uncut) weight of over 200 carats (40 grams).
See Diamond and List of largest rough diamonds
List of minerals
This is a list of minerals which have Wikipedia articles.
See Diamond and List of minerals
Lithosphere
A lithosphere is the rigid, outermost rocky shell of a terrestrial planet or natural satellite.
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Lonsdaleite
Lonsdaleite (named in honour of Kathleen Lonsdale), also called hexagonal diamond in reference to the crystal structure, is an allotrope of carbon with a hexagonal lattice, as opposed to the cubical lattice of conventional diamond. Diamond and Lonsdaleite are Native element minerals.
Loupe
A loupe is a simple, small magnification device used to see small details more closely.
Lustre (mineralogy)
Lustre (British English) or luster (American English; see spelling differences) is the way light interacts with the surface of a crystal, rock, or mineral.
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LVMH
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, commonly known as LVMH, is a French multinational holding company and conglomerate specializing in luxury goods, headquartered in Paris.
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Macle
Macle is a term used in crystallography.
Magnesium
Magnesium is a chemical element; it has symbol Mg and atomic number 12.
Magnesium oxide
Magnesium oxide (MgO), or magnesia, is a white hygroscopic solid mineral that occurs naturally as periclase and is a source of magnesium (see also oxide).
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Mahajanapadas
The Mahājanapadas were sixteen kingdoms and aristocratic republics that existed in ancient India from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE, during the second urbanisation period.
Majorite
Majorite is a mineral found in the mantle of the Earth. Diamond and Majorite are cubic minerals.
Mantle (geology)
A mantle is a layer inside a planetary body bounded below by a core and above by a crust.
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Matryoshka (diamond)
The Matryoshka (Алмаз-матрёшка) is a double diamond, one with a second diamond moving freely inside.
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Melilite
Melilite refers to a mineral of the melilite group.
Metamorphic rock
Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism.
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Metasomatism
Metasomatism (from the Greek μετά metá "change" and σῶμα sôma "body") is the chemical alteration of a rock by hydrothermal and other fluids.
Metastability
In chemistry and physics, metastability is an intermediate energetic state within a dynamical system other than the system's state of least energy.
Meteorite
A meteorite is a rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or moon.
Methane
Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one carbon atom bonded to four hydrogen atoms).
Microwave
Microwave is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than other radio waves (as originally discovered) but longer than infrared waves.
Miller index
Miller indices form a notation system in crystallography for lattice planes in crystal (Bravais) lattices.
Mir mine
The Mir mine (кимберлитовая алмазная трубка «Мир» kimberlitovaya almaznaya trubka "Mir"; English: kimberlite diamond pipe "Peace"), also called the Mirny mine, is an open pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Sakha Republic, in the Siberian region of eastern Russia.
Mohs scale
The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is a qualitative ordinal scale, from 1 to 10, characterizing scratch resistance of minerals through the ability of harder material to scratch softer material.
Moissanite
Moissanite is naturally occurring silicon carbide and its various crystalline polymorphs. Diamond and Moissanite are Native element minerals.
Montana
Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Murowa diamond mine
The Murowa diamond mine is a diamond mine located in Mazvihwa, south central Zimbabwe, about 40 kilometres from the asbestos mining town of Zvishavane in the Midlands province.
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N. W. Ayer & Son
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Nanocrystalline material
A nanocrystalline (NC) material is a polycrystalline material with a crystallite size of only a few nanometers. Diamond and nanocrystalline material are crystals.
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Nanodiamond
Nanodiamonds, or diamond nanoparticles, are diamonds with a size below 100 nanometers.
National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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National Science Foundation
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.
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Native element mineral
Native element minerals are those elements that occur in nature in uncombined form with a distinct mineral structure. Diamond and Native element mineral are Native element minerals.
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Nature Physics
Nature Physics is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio.
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Neptune
Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun.
New England (New South Wales)
New England is a geographical region in the north of the state of New South Wales, Australia, about inland from the Tasman Sea.
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New Mexico
New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28. Diamond and Nickel are Native element minerals.
Nitrogen
Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7.
Northeastern Japan Arc
The Northeastern Japan Arc, also Northeastern Honshū Arc, is an island arc on the Pacific Ring of Fire.
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Northern Australia
The unofficial geographic term Northern Australia includes those parts of Queensland and Western Australia north of latitude 26° and all of the Northern Territory.
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Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories (abbreviated NT or NWT; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; formerly North-West Territories) is a federal territory of Canada.
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Nova (American TV program)
Nova (stylized as NOVΛ) is an American popular science television program produced by WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, since 1974.
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Octahedron
In geometry, an octahedron (octahedra or octahedrons) is a polyhedron with eight faces.
Olivine
The mineral olivine is a magnesium iron silicate with the chemical formula. Diamond and olivine are industrial minerals.
Orbital hybridisation
In chemistry, orbital hybridisation (or hybridization) is the concept of mixing atomic orbitals to form new hybrid orbitals (with different energies, shapes, etc., than the component atomic orbitals) suitable for the pairing of electrons to form chemical bonds in valence bond theory.
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Orogeny
Orogeny is a mountain-building process that takes place at a convergent plate margin when plate motion compresses the margin.
Oxy-fuel welding and cutting
Principle of burn cutting Oxy-fuel welding (commonly called oxyacetylene welding, oxy welding, or gas welding in the United States) and oxy-fuel cutting are processes that use fuel gases (or liquid fuels such as gasoline or petrol, diesel, biodiesel, kerosene, etc) and oxygen to weld or cut metals.
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Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.
Panna district
Panna district is a district of the Sagar Division, within the Madhya Pradesh state in central India.
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Paragon (diamond)
The largest flawless diamond in the world is known as The Paragon, a D-color gem weighing, and the tenth largest white diamond in the world.
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Paramilitary
A paramilitary is a military that is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces.
Pascal (unit)
The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the unit of pressure in the International System of Units (SI).
PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.
Penna River
Penna (also known as Pinakini, Penneru, Penner, Pennar, Pennai) is a river of southern India.
Peridotite
Peridotite is a dense, coarse-grained igneous rock consisting mostly of the silicate minerals olivine and pyroxene.
Perseus Digital Library
The Perseus Digital Library, formerly known as the Perseus Project, is a free-access digital library founded by Gregory Crane in 1987 and hosted by the Department of Classical Studies of Tufts University.
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Petra Diamonds
Petra Diamonds Ltd is a diamond mining group headquartered in Jersey.
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Phases of ice
The phases of ice are all possible states of matter for water as a solid.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences is a fortnightly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Royal Society.
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Phlogopite
Phlogopite is a yellow, greenish, or reddish-brown member of the mica family of phyllosilicates. Diamond and Phlogopite are luminescent minerals.
Phonograph record
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), a vinyl record (for later varieties only), or simply a record or vinyl is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.
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Photoluminescence
Photoluminescence (abbreviated as PL) is light emission from any form of matter after the absorption of photons (electromagnetic radiation).
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Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism.
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Physical Review B
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (also known as PRB) is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal, published by the American Physical Society (APS).
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Physics World
Physics World is the membership magazine of the Institute of Physics, one of the largest physical societies in the world.
Plasma (physics)
Plasma is one of four fundamental states of matter (the other three being solid, liquid, and gas) characterized by the presence of a significant portion of charged particles in any combination of ions or electrons.
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Polishing
Polishing is the process of creating a smooth and shiny surface by rubbing it or by applying a chemical treatment, leaving a clean surface with a significant specular reflection (still limited by the index of refraction of the material according to the Fresnel equations).
Popigai impact structure
The Popigai impact structure is the eroded remnant of an impact crater in northern Siberia, Russia.
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Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics (often abbreviated as PM or PopMech) is a magazine of popular science and technology, featuring automotive, home, outdoor, electronics, science, do it yourself, and technology topics.
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Premier Mine
The Premier Mine is an underground diamond mine owned by Petra Diamonds in the town of Cullinan, east of Pretoria, Gauteng Province, South Africa.
Pressure experiment
Pressure experiments are experiments performed at pressures lower or higher than atmospheric pressure, called low-pressure experiments and high-pressure experiments, respectively.
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Product placement
Product placement, also known as embedded marketing, is a marketing technique where references to specific brands or products are incorporated into another work, such as a film or television program, with specific promotional intent.
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Pyroclastic rock
Pyroclastic rocks are clastic rocks composed of rock fragments produced and ejected by explosive volcanic eruptions.
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Pyrotechnic composition
A pyrotechnic composition is a substance or mixture of substances designed to produce an effect by heat, light, sound, gas/smoke or a combination of these, as a result of non-detonative self-sustaining exothermic chemical reactions.
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Pyroxene
The pyroxenes (commonly abbreviated Px) are a group of important rock-forming inosilicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks.
Qualitative property
Qualitative properties are properties that are observed and can generally not be measured with a numerical result.
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Radical (chemistry)
In chemistry, a radical, also known as a free radical, is an atom, molecule, or ion that has at least one unpaired valence electron.
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Raman spectroscopy
Raman spectroscopy (named after physicist C. V. Raman) is a spectroscopic technique typically used to determine vibrational modes of molecules, although rotational and other low-frequency modes of systems may also be observed.
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Redox
Redox (reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of the reactants change.
Refractive index
In optics, the refractive index (or refraction index) of an optical medium is a dimensionless number that gives the indication of the light bending ability of that medium.
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Rhenium–osmium dating
Rhenium–osmium dating is a form of radiometric dating based on the beta decay of the isotope 187Re to 187Os.
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Rhombicosidodecahedron
In geometry, the rhombicosidodecahedron is an Archimedean solid, one of thirteen convex isogonal nonprismatic solids constructed of two or more types of regular polygon faces.
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Rio Tinto (corporation)
Rio Tinto Group is a British-Australian multinational company that is the world's second largest metals and mining corporation (behind BHP).
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Rough diamond
A rough diamond is a diamond that has not been cut or processed.
Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Rubidium–strontium dating
The rubidium-strontium dating method (Rb-Sr) is a radiometric dating technique, used by scientists to determine the age of rocks and minerals from their content of specific isotopes of rubidium (87Rb) and strontium (87Sr, 86Sr).
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Sakha Republic
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million.
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Samarium–neodymium dating
Samarium–neodymium dating is a radiometric dating method useful for determining the ages of rocks and meteorites, based on the alpha decay of the long-lived samarium isotope to the stable radiogenic neodymium isotope.
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Scratch hardness
Scratch hardness refers to the hardness of a material in terms of resistance to scratches and abrasion by a harder material forcefully drawn over its surface.
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Sediment transport
Sediment transport is the movement of solid particles (sediment), typically due to a combination of gravity acting on the sediment, and the movement of the fluid in which the sediment is entrained.
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Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.
Serpentine subgroup
Serpentine subgroup (part of the kaolinite-serpentine group in the category of phyllosilicates) are greenish, brownish, or spotted minerals commonly found in serpentinite.
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Serpentinite
Serpentinite is a metamorphic rock composed predominantly of one or more serpentine group minerals formed by near to complete serpentinization of mafic to ultramafic rocks.
Silicon
Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14. Diamond and Silicon are group IV semiconductors and Native element minerals.
Silicon carbide
Silicon carbide (SiC), also known as carborundum, is a hard chemical compound containing silicon and carbon. Diamond and silicon carbide are abrasives and group IV semiconductors.
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Silicon dioxide
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, commonly found in nature as quartz.
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Sintering
Sintering or frittage is the process of compacting and forming a solid mass of material by pressure or heat without melting it to the point of liquefaction.
Smithson Tennant
Smithson Tennant FRS (30 November 1761 – 22 February 1815) was an English chemist.
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Smithsonian (magazine)
Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine (and associated website, SmithsonianMag.com), and is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., although editorially independent from its parent organization.
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Solid solution
A solid solution, a term popularly used for metals, is a homogeneous mixture of two different kinds of atoms in solid state and having a single crystal structure.
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South India
South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area and 20% of India's population.
Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa.
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Spectral color
A spectral color is a color that is evoked by monochromatic light, i.e. either a spectral line with a single wavelength or frequency of light in the visible spectrum, or a relatively narrow spectral band (e.g. lasers).
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Stable nuclide
Stable nuclides are nuclides that are not radioactive and so (unlike radionuclides) do not spontaneously undergo radioactive decay.
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Standard temperature and pressure
Standard temperature and pressure (STP) or Standard conditions for temperature and pressure are various standard sets of conditions for experimental measurements used to allow comparisons to be made between different sets of data.
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Subduction
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.
Superhard material
A superhard material is a material with a hardness value exceeding 40 gigapascals (GPa) when measured by the Vickers hardness test.
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Superior Craton
The Superior Craton is a stable crustal block covering Quebec, Ontario, and southeast Manitoba in Canada, and northern Minnesota in the United States.
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Supernova
A supernova (supernovae or supernovas) is a powerful and luminous explosion of a star.
Surat
Surat (Gujarati) is a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
Surface energy
In surface science, surface energy (also interfacial free energy or surface free energy) quantifies the disruption of intermolecular bonds that occurs when a surface is created.
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Swiss Gemmological Institute
The Swiss Gemmological Institute (SSEF) is a gemmology laboratory located in Basel, Switzerland.
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Symmetry
Symmetry in everyday life refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance.
Synthetic diamond
Laboratory-grown (LGD), also called lab-grown diamond, laboratory-created, man-made, artisan-created, artificial, synthetic, or cultured diamond, is diamond that is produced in a controlled technological process (in contrast to naturally formed diamond, which is created through geological processes and obtained by mining). Diamond and synthetic diamond are crystals.
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Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo (translit,; translit), usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel.
Terrane
In geology, a terrane (in full, a tectonostratigraphic terrane) is a crust fragment formed on a tectonic plate (or broken off from it) and accreted or "sutured" to crust lying on another plate.
Tetrakis hexahedron
In geometry, a tetrakis hexahedron (also known as a tetrahexahedron, hextetrahedron, tetrakis cube, and kiscube) is a Catalan solid.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
The Montana Standard
The Montana Standard is a daily newspaper in Butte, Montana owned by Lee Enterprises.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Thermal conductivity and resistivity
The thermal conductivity of a material is a measure of its ability to conduct heat.
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Thermal expansion
Thermal expansion is the tendency of matter to increase in length, area, or volume, changing its size and density, in response to an increase in temperature (usually excluding phase transitions).
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Thermistor
A thermistor is a semiconductor type of resistor whose resistance is strongly dependent on temperature, more so than in standard resistors.
Till
Closeup of glacial till. Note that the larger grains (pebbles and gravel) in the till are completely surrounded by the matrix of finer material (silt and sand), and this characteristic, known as ''matrix support'', is diagnostic of till. Glacial till with tufts of grass Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Tonne
The tonne (or; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms.
Toughness
In materials science and metallurgy, toughness is the ability of a material to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracturing.
Transition zone (Earth)
The transition zone is the part of Earth's mantle that is located between the lower and the upper mantle, most strictly between the seismic-discontinuity depths of about, but more broadly defined as the zone encompassing those discontinuities, i.e., between about depth.
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Transparency and translucency
In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light. Diamond and transparency and translucency are transparent materials.
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Triple point
In thermodynamics, the triple point of a substance is the temperature and pressure at which the three phases (gas, liquid, and solid) of that substance coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium.
Types of volcanic eruptions
Several types of volcanic eruptions—during which material is expelled from a volcanic vent or fissure—have been distinguished by volcanologists.
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Udachnaya pipe
The Udachnaya pipe (тру́бка Уда́чная, literally lucky pipe) is a diamond deposit in the Daldyn-Alakit kimberlite field in Sakha Republic, Russia.
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Ultra-high-pressure metamorphism
Ultra-high-pressure metamorphism refers to metamorphic processes at pressures high enough to stabilize coesite, the high-pressure polymorph of SiO2.
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Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.
Unit cell
In geometry, biology, mineralogy and solid state physics, a unit cell is a repeating unit formed by the vectors spanning the points of a lattice.
Unit of measurement
A unit of measurement, or unit of measure, is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.
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Upper mantle
The upper mantle of Earth is a very thick layer of rock inside the planet, which begins just beneath the crust (at about under the oceans and about under the continents) and ends at the top of the lower mantle at.
Uranium–lead dating
Uranium–lead dating, abbreviated U–Pb dating, is one of the oldest and most refined of the radiometric dating schemes.
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Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.
Valence and conduction bands
In solid-state physics, the valence band and conduction band are the bands closest to the Fermi level, and thus determine the electrical conductivity of the solid.
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Vickers hardness test
The Vickers hardness test was developed in 1921 by Robert L. Smith and George E. Sandland at Vickers Ltd as an alternative to the Brinell method to measure the hardness of materials.
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Volatility (chemistry)
In chemistry, volatility is a material quality which describes how readily a substance vaporizes.
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Volcanic pipe
Volcanic pipes or volcanic conduits are subterranean geological structures formed by the violent, supersonic eruption of deep-origin volcanoes.
Water
Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula. Diamond and Water are transparent materials.
Weathering
Weathering is the deterioration of rocks, soils and minerals (as well as wood and artificial materials) through contact with water, atmospheric gases, sunlight, and biological organisms.
Wedding ring
A wedding ring or wedding band is a finger ring that indicates that its wearer is married.
West Africa
West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.
Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.
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White dwarf
A white dwarf is a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter.
Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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Wind
Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface.
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Window
A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof, or vehicle that allows the exchange of light and may also allow the passage of sound and sometimes air.
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.
Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond
The Wittelsbach-Graff Diamond is a deep-blue diamond with internally flawless clarity, originating in the Kollur Mine, India.
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World Diamond Congress
The World Diamond Congress is a bi-annual industry event organized by World Federation of Diamond Bourses and the International Diamond Manufacturers Association.
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World Diamond Council
The World Diamond Council is an organization representing the entire diamond value chain including representatives from diamond mining, manufacturing, trading and retail.
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World Federation of Diamond Bourses
The World Federation of Diamond Bourses, founded in 1947, was created to provide bourses trading in rough and polished diamonds and precious stones with a common set of trading practices.
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X-ray
X-rays (or rarely, X-radiation) are a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation.
X-ray diffraction
X-ray diffraction is a generic term for phenomena associated with changes in the direction of X-ray beams due to interactions with the electrons around atoms.
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X-ray fluorescence
X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is the emission of characteristic "secondary" (or fluorescent) X-rays from a material that has been excited by being bombarded with high-energy X-rays or gamma rays.
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Xenolith
A xenolith ("foreign rock") is a rock fragment (country rock) that becomes enveloped in a larger rock during the latter's development and solidification.
2000s energy crisis
From the mid-1980s to September 2003, the inflation-adjusted price of a barrel of crude oil on NYMEX was generally under US$25/barrel in 2008 dollars.
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See also
Abrasives
- Abrasive
- Abrasive blasting
- Aluminium oxide
- Boron nitride
- Bristle blasting
- Bronze wool
- Chromium(III) oxide
- Coated abrasives
- Corundum
- Cutting compound
- Diamond
- Emery (rock)
- Lapping film
- Melamine foam
- Poly diamond powder
- Pumice
- Rotten stone
- Sandpaper
- Silicon carbide
- Steel abrasive
- Steel wool
- Surface finishing
- White fused alumina
- Winoa
- Wire wool
Group IV semiconductors
- Amorphous silicon
- Bilayer graphene
- Black silicon
- Carbon nanofoam
- Crystalline silicon
- Cyclo(18)carbon
- Diamond
- Float-zone silicon
- Germanene
- Germanium
- Graphene
- Low-temperature polycrystalline silicon
- Monocrystalline silicon
- Nanocrystalline silicon
- Polycrystalline silicon
- Porous silicon
- Silicene
- Silicon
- Silicon carbide
- Strained silicon
Impact event minerals
- Atacama desert glass
- Australite
- Bediasite
- Coesite
- Darwin glass
- Diamond
- Diamond flaw
- Georgiaite
- Impactite
- Indochinite
- Iridium
- Lechatelierite
- Libyan desert glass
- Maskelynite
- Moldavite
- Philippinite
- Reidite
- Stishovite
- Suevite
- Tasmanite (tektite)
- Tektite
Minerals in space group 227
- Arsenolite
- Betafite
- Cadmoindite
- Carrollite
- Chromite
- Cristobalite
- Daubréelite
- Diamond
- Diamond cubic
- Faujasite
- Filipstadite
- Fletcherite
- Franklinite
- Gahnite
- Galaxite
- Greigite
- Hercynite
- Hydrokenoelsmoreite
- Indite
- Jacobsite
- Joegoldsteinite
- Kalininite
- Linnaeite
- Magnesioferrite
- Microlite
- Nichromite
- Polydymite
- Pyrochlore
- Ringwoodite
- Siegenite
- Spinel
- Stibiconite
- Trevorite
- Tyrrellite
- Ulvöspinel
- Villiaumite
- Violarite
- Xingzhongite
- Zincochromite
Transparent materials
- Aluminium oxynitride
- Architectural glass
- Borosilicate glass
- Calcite
- Cellophane
- Cellulose acetate
- Cer-Vit
- Diamond
- Foturan
- Fused quartz
- Gases
- Germanium dioxide
- Glass
- Glassine
- Ice
- Iceland spar
- Lumicera
- Monopotassium phosphate
- Nitrocellulose
- Optical materials
- Plasma physics
- Plastarch material
- Pliofilm
- Poly(methyl methacrylate)
- Polycarbonate
- Polyethylene
- Polyethylene terephthalate
- Polylactic acid
- Polyvinyl butyral
- Pyrex
- Reagent bottle
- Resins
- Sapphire
- See-through clothing
- See-through graphics
- Sheer fabric
- Sitall
- Soda–lime glass
- Sol–gel process
- Spinel
- Transparency and translucency
- Transparent ceramics
- Tritan copolyester
- Ultra sheer
- Vycor
- Water
- Yogo sapphire
- Yttralox
- Zerodur
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