Diamond is the hardest known material on our planet and that is the reason for it can be cut only using another one. Not without a reason it
was called “adamas” by the Greek what literally means “invincible”. Until diamond is being placed in particular piece of jewelry, on average, it looses half of its weight it had as a raw material. For most people, a diamond is the most precious and the most beautiful gem in the world. The value of a diamond is characterized by four main features. Those are clarity, weight, color and cut. Those are commonly known as 4c. In general, diamond is an allotrope of carbon. Carbon atoms are tightly packed in it what gives diamonds a tough structure. Naturally, among those inter atoms bindings, there are some weaker parts in particular directions thanks to which we are able to split them.
Making a clever usage of those parts allows the diamond-cutters give a row diamond possibly the best shape. Diamond-cutting is an art that began in ancient times and the example was given by the very nature. It revealed shining stones or polished by the water materials having a high gloss and expressive coloration. Today, diamond’s sparkle is known and admired by many lovers of gems and their beauty.
Diamond’s sparkle is one of the things that constitutes about the gem’s charm and magic. This extraordinary fire and sparkles together with diamonds grandeur are the reason of their amazing success in the field of jewelers. Raw diamonds are almost lusterless, with no gloss. It is the appropriate diamond-cut extracts the gem’s life, light, fire, sparkles and shine. The quality of the diamond’s sparkledepends on the amount of light reflected from its surface and from the internal side of the facets. While the light comes to the inside of the stone through its head,it is being almost completely reflected by the bottom facets. Some part of the reflected light goes out through the crown and some through the head.
It is considered a difficult art to polish and cut a diamond so that the final effect could boast of a perfect diamond’s sparkle. The angle of facets inclination in the process of diamond-cutting has been counted exactly in order to obtain the strongest diamond’s sparkle. The shape and size of the stone also matters. Perfectly cut diamond works just like a prism. When light penetrate into the stone, it becomes split into waves of different length. The red light which comes to the longest beam, refract the least whilst the shortest wave with violet light – the most.
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