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Diamonds
"The Hard Facts"
The hardest substance known to man
I wouldn't claim to know what this is all about, but it's something
to impress your friends with!
| Transparency |
Transparent |
| Colour |
Colourless, yellow, pink, brown, black, green,
blue |
| Hardness |
10 |
| Cleavage |
Perfect |
| Fracture |
Conchoidal, with splinters |
| Crystalline Structure |
Cubic |
| Chemical Composition |
Carbon |
| Density |
3.52 |
| Refractive Index |
2.42 |
| Birefringence |
None |
| Dispersion |
0.044 |
| Pleochroism |
None |
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