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Even diamonds come in colors
It can come as surprise to many but yes, diamonds come in colors. If you want to know more about them read on. Let’s start with the types of colored diamonds available on earth. Also Read:- Rose Gold Diamond Jewelry: A Color To Go With Your Diamonds Types of diamonds While mining, people do come across colorful diamonds that range from shades of yellow and red to green, blue, and purple as well. Here, the jewelers put these colorful stones under three categories. Type I diamonds Natural diamonds are made of carbon under a lot of pressure. It is at this point that sometimes foreign particles get trapped inside this compound to give its color. Such stones fall into the type I category. Like for instance, if nitrogen is present in the carbon, then it will get an orange or yellow color. It is nitrogen that gives the diamond its pink, green, and blue color. Being the most common element to influence the color of the diamond. It contributes to the creation of 98% of colored diamonds. Type II diamonds Diamonds are not made easily, especially colored ones. Some of them are rare pieces. When talking about type II diamonds they are completely free of element nitrogen. Around 2% of the diamonds fall in this category. Such diamonds get their color due to the pressure applied to them. Stones in this category are further classified into type IIa & type IIb diamonds. In Type IIa the diamonds acquire brown, pink colors and are sometimes found colorless. These are known to be the purest of all diamonds. Type IIb is mostly blue. It is because they contain traces of boron and hence, they get a cool blue hue. Remember the “heart of the ocean” diamond in the movie “Titanic”. Type III diamonds Many times we don’t know how mother nature plays its card. Diamonds falling in Type III categories are such miracles. Even it's hard for scientists to know how these diamonds get their green color. Some say it is the result of their exposure to the radiation inside the Earth. The grading system for colored diamonds Colored diamonds are one of the many miracles performed by mother nature. They come in an endless range of colors. You will be surprised to know that the count of graded color diamonds falls into the range of 200-300 shades. If you are going out to buy a colored diamond, then you must keep these aspects in mind while grading them. They are: Base colors In colors there are three primaries and then comes secondary colors. For diamonds, it has 12 base colors. They include yellow, red, orange, green, purple, pink, blue, violet, gray, and brown. You can also find black and white colors coming into play with the hues of the 12 base colors. You can expect the vivid red diamond to look completely different from a deep red diamond. Intensity Based on the intensity of the color we can classify the base colors of the diamond further down. Looking at it closely the grading has 9 levels of color intensity. This can go to range from fancy vivid to faint color intensity. The others falling in between this range are very light, light, fancy light, fancy, fancy dark, fancy deep, fancy intense. You should know that not all colored diamonds are available in different levels of color intensity. Like for instance, you won’t find it is very light, light, and faint red diamonds. You won’t find light yellow diamonds at all. Secondary colors Most of the colored diamonds can’t be explained based on one color. They are often described as a combination of two different colors. There are always two colors in the picture. Like for instance, there is purplish pink and orange-red diamond. Some of them also have a combination of three colors such as yellowish gray-green diamonds. In such cases, a slight presence of yellow makes a lot of difference in the combination of gray and green. In these diamonds, the dominant colors are usually mentioned in the last. In a gray-green diamond, green will be the dominant color. Geoffreys Diamonds Other features to make colored diamonds more colorful To make your colored diamonds more colorful or give them a special hue you will have to keep some other things in your mind. The setting of the diamond always holds a special position in deciding the appearance of a diamond. Among different metals, you can go for rose gold, yellow gold, and white gold to give your stone a little more color. Like for example, a pink diamond will become deep pink if a rose gold setting is used. A blue-colored diamond white gold setting will do wonders. Another feature affecting the colored diamond is its cut. The cut of the diamond determines the perceived color. For example, if a yellow diamond is given a cushion cut it will get a fancy yellow coloring. This will also increase the price per carat of the stone.
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