Diamond is an obsolete name for a diamond, it is its absolute synonym. The words diamond and adamant have the same meaning. Diamond has two variants of origin: from French and German. The second meaning of the word is the name of the small print size, the size of which is 4 points.
What is a diamond: historical aspect
To appreciate the significance of the diamond for 500 years since its discovery, you need to know: products from it were valued by people such as Catherine the Great, Napoleon, Charles VII. Everyone wants to have this hard, indestructible mineral in their collection.
The first diamonds appeared in India several millennia ago. The Indians themselves were the first to cut a rough diamond, and later its brilliance reached Europe. It was much later, in the 5th-6th century BC, and the first sample was created in the 15th century. The Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold, was struck by the brilliance of diamonds and became the first person to insert them into his armor to dazzle enemies in battle.
Description
Diamond, jewelry from whichfascinate people, can be different colors. Most often, diamonds in nature are colorless or with a yellowish tinge, but there are also blue, red, mauve, bright yellow and even black. The latter are the rarest and hence the most expensive.
The attraction of jewelry is that a diamond can reflect light both outside and inside its shape.
It is also unique that a diamond is the only gemstone that consists of only one chemical element - carbon, due to which a white diamond becomes invisible if it is lowered into water, as it looks like an ordinary one glass without impurities inside.
Use of diamonds
What is a diamond for people who know how to extract practical benefits? This is, first of all, waste-free production, even diamond dust, for example, after cutting can be used. Oddly enough, but the use of such an expensive mineral in certain industries greatly reduces costs.
Diamond wheels are devices designed for cutting the hardest metals in the world, are actively used in the processing of tools, machine parts, drilling in hard and abrasive rocks, dressing grinding wheels and in many other areas.
The main advantage of the mineral in the industry is the ability to process hard alloys using diamond wheels. Most of the industrial diamonds are just involved in this type of activity.
