Diamond exhibition at the Smithsonian
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011Luster of diamond at the Smithsonian was a map of seven of the rare diamond in the world. 5.11 carats of diamonds the size of 203.04 carats. The exhibition ran from June 27, 2003 to September 15, 2003. Seven diamonds were found Allnatt, Millennium Star, Ocean Dream, Moussaieff Red Cross, freshwater pearl jewelry, Heart of Eternity, Steinmetz Pink Diamond, and pumpkins.
Allnatt is a cushion cut, Fancy vivid yellow diamond, as the Gemological Institute of America Rated (GIA.) is currently provided by VNS Corporation and has a mass of 101.29 carats. Its yellow color is due to a certain concentration of nitrogen impurities in the carbon structure. Deficit Allnatt recently its size and color of some diamonds weighing over 100 carats of such vivid colors of these diamonds makes it a perfect diamonds money-back guarantee, because no one wants to return as a diamond is unique.
Diamond Allnatt
De Beers Millennium Star is the sixth largest known gem-quality colorless diamond ever found. This is the second largest diamond is colorless and flawless pear. The absence of color in the Millennium Declaration, the star, she is completely out of crystallized carbon. There is no contamination of other elements, free from defects in their structure, no radiation in the growth process.
Star of the Millennium belongs to De Beers. He came from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the early 1990′s. The original diamond 777 carats (155.4 g) He went Steinmetz Group of three years for laser cutting and polishing crystal gross 203.04-carat pear-shaped. It was a diamond, pearl earrings, “Blood Diamond” or “non-conflict diamond” because it is an area rich in diamonds, but this truth has never been proven and refined by the Kimberley Process.
Ocean Dream is a 5.51 carat (1.102 g), Fancy Deep Blue-Green Diamond, Assessment GIA. He is one of the few diamonds in the world because it is the only known natural diamonds, GIA is the blue-green. Blue Green, usually artificially modified or synthetic diamond saw. To achieve this color, the color of diamonds can be changed by irradiation. Ocean Dream was on the Earth millions of years of exposure to natural radiation caused by its blue-green.
Moussaieff Red 5.11 carats (1.022 g), Trilliant, Fancy Red Diamond, Assessment GIA. Red, above all, a deep red color, is one of the rarest colors in the diamond. Moussaieff Red Diamond is the biggest novelty, that the GIA had never seen. He was cut by a farmer in Brazil in mid-1990′s, where he is crude crystal of 13.9 carats (2.78 g), purchased from the William Goldberg Diamond Corp, crystal polished, and called Red Shield. It was bought by Moussaieff Jewelers Ltd. and renamed.
Heart of Eternity heart of the 27.64 carat (5.528 g), Fancy Vivid Blue Diamond, estimated GIA. This diamond comes from South Africa. It is with a company that cut Steinmetz sold De Beers. The blue color of the boron impurity in the carbon structure of diamonds. Only a very small “blue” diamonds in colors so bright, for which boron is often only in certain sections of the stone is located, or desaturated color and grayscale.