Most MYSTERIOUS Things Found Inside DIAMONDS!

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Check out the Most MYSTERIOUS Things Found Inside DIAMONDS! From the largest diamonds ever found to amazing discoveries made inside, this top 10 list of facts about diamonds might just surprise you!

10. Harzburgite Inclusions
Harzburgite inclusions are a form of peridot-ite rocks, which are the most common rocks in the Earth’s mantle. These inclusions are so common that scientists are able to date diamonds by dating the inclusions inside of them.
At Amsterdam’s Vrije University, scientists have been studying 26 diamonds with Harzburgite inclusions. They’ve determined that nine of these diamonds were formed three billion years ago when the mega continent Pangaea broke apart into smaller continents.

9. Boron Molecules
There are four qualities that determine the value of a diamond but you probably know this already. Cut, color, carat and, everybody say it with me know! Clarity. Good! Carat is the weight of a diamond, and it’s an obvious basis for value. The heavier the diamond, the bigger it is, and therefore usually the more it costs. Color is important because some colors are rarer than others. The two rarest diamond colors are blue and red.

8. Kyanite
Another molecule that turns diamonds blue is kyanite, which is a semiprecious stone in its own right. It’s rare, but sometimes diamonds contain kyanite, which most often turns the diamond blue. Kyanite is used in heat-resistant ceramics and can be found in sinks and bathroom fixtures. It is also used in manufacturing where heat resistance is important.

7. Extra-terrestrial Carbon
Pure carbon exists in three forms: graphite, buckminsterfullerene, and, of course, diamonds. There are two other forms of carbon, as well, and their existence was postulated long before it was proven.
These two other forms are made of mutated carbon atoms, which have the distinction of being harder than diamond.

6. Carbon-12
In 1983, 22 diamonds were found in the Jack Hills in Western Australia. These diamonds were made of carbon-12, also known as light carbon, which is only formed from living organisms. Earth is estimated to be about 4.54 billion years old, and scientists from UCLA just recently shared with the public that they had found biogenic carbon that dates back to 4.1 billion years.

5. Calcium Silicate Perovskite
Calcium silicate perovskite makes up almost 38% of the Earth’s volume, but it’s still incredibly rare to find. The best sample that scientists have obtained came from a meteorite. Here on Earth, it’s the fourth most common substance, but when it gets closer than 400 miles to the surface, it becomes unstable and breaks down. Stable samples of calcium silicate perovskite are hard to obtain because the mineral can only exist deep in the Earth’s mantle, too deep to reach through drilling.

4. Ferropericlase
The Earth’s mantle is extremely thick, and most diamonds are formed in the upper and middle bands. It’s very rare for diamonds to be found that were formed in the deepest levels of the mantle. The Gemological Institute of America (GIA), however, thinks they’ve found some from this superdeep level based on the discovery of diamonds with Ferropericlase.

3. Ringwoodite
Geologists speculate that there’s an ocean trapped inside the Earth’s mantle, 320 miles inside the planet. Or at least a very, very large amount of water that is trapped in a specific layer of the deep Earth. The ocean in question is held within a green mineral called ringwoodite, which only exists in an area between the upper and lower mantle called the transition zone.

2. Ice-VII
There are several different types of ice in the world. The standard ice for us, the kind we put into our drinks, is called ice-I, and its oxygen atoms form hexagons. If ice-I is put under pressure, it converts to ice-II,. More pressure makes ice-III, and so on. So you can imagine Ice-VII!! It is actually created in the laboratory, and scientists believe it is common on icy moons like Titan and Europa. They never believed that it existed naturally on Earth.

1. Liquid Metals
Like water, metals can be caught inside diamonds as they form. These little impurities or inclusions make jewelers discard them diamonds as subpar, but to scientists, these impurities can speak volumes.
Large diamonds containing metal inclusions are rare. There have been 53 diamonds found with these impurities inside them.

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Diamonds arent rare. Thats a myth fostered by diamond sellers there are vaults with tons of them.

EdTube
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Forget the diamonds, I can't even afford the 'inclusions'!

rifflequeen
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Reading through these comments I thought I'd just add something from an insider's point of view.

Diamonds are rear, and they are not.
Yes and no.
Diamonds are found on this planet in abundance.
What makes them rare, is their location.
It takes an immense effort, massive resources and real threat to human lives to bring them to the surface.
In the process millions are employed.
Industrial quality diamonds are more widespread,
while top gem quality stones are far more rare.
As for them being worthless...
The price of diamonds, gemstones, precious metals, pearls, ferrous/non ferrous metals, fruit, everything is regulated.
It is the only way to protect a trade, it's investors, its workers and yes, it's consumers.

Look into the uses of industrial diamonds and you'll see that your world was carved by them.

As in all trades humans will bring their dishonesty, greedy
power mongering nature and exploit their fellow humans -
that does'nt make diamonds any less valuable or beautiful than say, a masterly crafted piece of furniture.
Wood is'nt rare right?

I can go on but I'll stop with this -
(I am currently making a video on this topic )
The path of the diamond, after being formed deep inside the earth's mantel, up through the Kimberlite, down the river into the ocean and then collected by man at mindblowing depths is truly a
beautiful one and if you can remove negative perceptions created by movies like Blood Diamond, it really is one of the most beautiful things happening on earth right now.

It is a story millions of years in the making.

From the hands of the master cutter who releases the fire, on to the bench of the jewellery designer (my role for the last 30 years)
and then off to the goldsmith who will sit behind his bench for hours before a handcrafted masterpiece is put onto the finger of a lucky lady.
Anyway that's my take on it.
Now off to meet with suppliers, cutters, clients and then my goldsmith..
Awesome day from Cape Town!!

hardymaritz
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The 3.69 carat hallelujah diamond that was found in Arkansas at The Crater Of Diamonds state park. is a gem in a gem, although you wont find that info listed on any news article or anything, but the owner and finder of this precious gem had it looked at by Gemologist to learn that the red thing inside her diamond was in fact a Garnet. it's amazing to see.

Orahwilde
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Can I just point out, diamonds shouldn’t actually have any value. They’re just controlled by one group of people, who own all jewellery stores like Kay’s and Jerold’s’ and they artificially inflate their value. Coupled with the scam that all rings need a diamond and bam, fake value

T-Fyre
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This ladies voice goes right to my spinal cord!!!

timbrown
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Still can't imagine ice found inside a diamond.

kainoa
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What the heck does “mutated carbon” mean? Mutated is a biological term. And if life uses c12, the C12 has to already be there, unless there is some kind of biological transmutation I have not heard of.

jamesmeritt
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the picture we wanted to see is not in here

bobcapps
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Hi Katrina. Your videos are always so thought provoking. But I think you may have outdone yourself with this one. Very informative!

Phendix
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There this one time I got five diamonds in minecraft

aiohto
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Diamonds are made when the earth touches itself. The more you know.

toxicmale
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For all of them Steven universe fans;
Hnng the diamonds probs have their court inside them, amirite

kimmthee
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Hey!
So what's a sapphire?
Is it a type of blue diamond?
Or something else altogether?
Thanks
Have a Great Day!

brodyrufus
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Diamonds: Boron Molecules
Me: Moron Molecules

hoerangi
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Really i don't know this mentioned things are found inside the diamonds

arinjimaarinjima
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Diamonds are manipulated to increase the actual value. Gold however is the real precious metal.

wymershandymanservice
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so she is just taking other people's work click bait

bobcapps
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this was very interesting and informative, , being a steven universe fan,

earlfrancart
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So the densor diamonds maybe formed on bigger planets with more force? Or other minerals all together?

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