- published: 18 May 2013 - views: 11343 - author: Qritiko Video
taken from Asia's Songbird Regine Velasquez Mini Concert at
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https://www.facebook.com/Qritiko Follow... The slightly
misshapen octahedral shape of this rough diamond crystal in
matrix is typical of the mineral. Its lustrous faces also
indicate that this crystal is from a primary deposit. |Molar
mass||12.01 g·mol-1| |Color||Typically yellow, brown or gray to
colorless. Less often blue, green, black, translucent white,
pink, violet, orange, purple and red.| |Crystal
system||Isometric-Hexoctahedral (Cubic)| |Cleavage||111 (perfect
in four directions)| |Mohs scale hardness||10|
|Diaphaneity||Transparent to subtransparent to translucent|
|Refractive index||2.418 (at 500 nm)| |Melting point||Pressure
dependent| In mineralogy, diamond (from the ancient Greek αδάμας
– adámas "unbreakable") is an allotrope of carbon, where the
carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered
cubic crystal str