Fancy Colors of Diamonds
Diamonds
could be of all colors actually, but usually they are divided into two
main groups: colorless and fancy colored diamonds. Colorless diamonds
are considered to be traditional transparent flawless gems without any
impurity intrusion. The best colorless gems is the one without any color,
however such gemstones are relatively rare to be found in nature. Fancy
colored diamonds are gems of yellow, orange, canary, cognac, blue, green,
pink, red and even black colors. Usually, yellow diamonds outnumber the
rest colored diamonds. This is nitrogen element that tinges diamonds into
all shades of yellow from light lemon to dark brownish yellow. Except
nitrogen, there is boron element that infiltrates diamonds and makes them
shine blue. As the number of inclusions that tinge diamonds into various
colors is limited, fancy colored diamonds are very rare in nature.
Due to contemporary technologies it became possible to create rare colored
diamonds in the laboratory conditions. Competent scientists apply the
same chemical elements or additional techniques as found in nature to
infiltrate diamonds and change their color, that is why created diamonds
appear to be saturated and fadeless.
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