It was discovered a long time ago that there was a diamond the size of the moon in space, and people named it Lucy, in order to correspond to The Beatles's song-Lucy in the sky wearing diamonds.

So, the next time you look up at the starry sky, you can confidently tell people around you that the stars in the sky are made of diamonds.

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Diamonds are not uncommon. They are everywhere in the universe. Every collapsing star may produce a lot of diamonds, but there is no way for human beings to mine them.

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There will be real diamond rain on Jupiter and Saturn. Sounds beautiful, doesn't it? Don't be too happy. If you really understand what' diamond rain' means in space, then you can probably understand how terrible it is to bear diamond rain.

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There are also many diamonds on the earth, enough for everyone in the world.

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Of the diamonds stored in the earth, 80% are not suitable for jewelry. They will be used in industry or directly discarded, so the handful of diamonds assigned to you can't be the diamonds you think.

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If you really want to mine your own diamonds, you can go to Arkansas Diamond Pit State Park, which is the only open diamond mine in the world, and tourists and stone hunters can pay for it.

Since 1906, more than 70,000 diamonds have been found here, including Uncle Sam's diamond weighing 40.23 carats. 20 15 A tourist found a diamond weighing 8.52 carats in the same park where the diamond was found.

Dig it out and it's yours.

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It takes about 250 tons of raw ore to produce 1 carat diamond. It needs fine and complicated processing to become a familiar diamond. Therefore, in addition to a certain output control, the difficulty of diamond mining and processing is also a very important factor.

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Most diamonds found in nature are 10 billion to 3 billion years old. They were formed in the depths of the earth with a temperature of 900 to 130 degrees Celsius billions of years ago.

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Diamond powder is used to polish diamonds, because nothing else can scratch them.

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Diamond is the hardest substance in the world, but that doesn't mean it is "solid". A brick or a hammer will break it.

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If it is burned by fire, it must be heated to 1290 to 1650 degrees Fahrenheit to damage the diamond. In some cases, domestic stoves and jewelers' torches can reach this temperature.

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The first diamond in the world was found on the riverbed in Golconda, India, 4000 years ago. So India is the earliest diamond producing area. /kloc-Before the 0/8th century, most diamonds were found in India.

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At first, diamonds were just tools for cutting other precious stones.

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The word "carat", the unit of measurement of diamonds, comes from "hornstone", which is the name given to the carob tree by the Greeks. For centuries, the seeds of this tree have been used as the standard for weighing precious stones. Because the weight of this seed is relatively stable, usually 0.2g, in 19 13, the carat weight becomes the measurement standard.

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Diamonds and pencil refills are actually the same thing, but the arrangement of carbon elements is different.

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Scientists in Mexico once said that they could turn tequila into diamonds, but they couldn't even get a small diamond on the ring.

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Peanut butter can also be made into diamonds, but it requires extremely complicated scientific equipment, so for most of us, the role of peanut butter is just to eat.

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Ashes can also be used to make synthetic diamonds, although it may sound a little scary.

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Real diamonds will not appear on the negative under X-ray irradiation. So some fake diamonds can be distinguished by this method.

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The world's three largest diamond mines are located in Botswana, Russia and Canada. So don't think that all diamonds belong to South Africa.

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The United States is the world's number one diamond consumer market. Although the United States hardly produces diamonds for commercial consumption, it buys 40% of the world's gem-grade diamonds, making it the largest diamond market in the world.