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    Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Another solid form of carbon known...
    139 KB (14,961 words) - 12:57, 24 May 2024
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    A red diamond is a diamond which displays red color and exhibits the same mineral properties as colorless diamonds. Red diamonds are commonly known as...
    18 KB (2,046 words) - 18:23, 22 February 2024
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    Blue diamond is a type of diamond which exhibits all of the same inherent properties of the mineral except with the additional element of blue color in...
    17 KB (1,375 words) - 16:55, 2 May 2024
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    these diamonds undergo during their formation. Pink diamonds belong to a category of diamonds called color diamonds, the generic name for all diamonds that...
    24 KB (2,447 words) - 01:06, 24 March 2024
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    50,000 miners dug the Big Hole with picks and shovels, yielding 2,722 kg (6,001 lb) of diamonds, and by 1873 Kimberley was the second largest town in South...
    62 KB (8,325 words) - 10:27, 3 May 2024
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    miners dug the hole with picks and shovels, yielding 2,720 kilograms (6,000 lb; 13,600,000 carats) of diamonds. The Big Hole has a surface of 17 hectares...
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    A baseball field, also called a ball field or baseball diamond, is the field upon which the game of baseball is played. The term can also be used as a...
    40 KB (5,706 words) - 03:06, 28 April 2024
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    1911. Black Diamond was born in 1893 of a bull and cow given to the zoo by Barnum and Bailey. He weighed 1550 pounds (ultimately yielding 750 pounds of...
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    Cargill (redirect from Diamond Crystal)
    MacMillan families became upset that their shares in the company were yielding mediocre dividends. Demands rose for an initial public offering to turn...
    68 KB (7,026 words) - 08:37, 2 May 2024
  • negotiator, Doug's well-manicured property is a honey hole of petroliana, yielding Amoco and American Gas canvas banners by Norman Rockwell, coveralls, pants...
    194 KB (64 words) - 05:48, 27 May 2024
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    to 1914, 50,000 miners dug the hole with picks and shovels, yielding 2,722 kg of diamonds. The Big Hole has a surface of 17 hectares (42 acres) and is...
    72 KB (7,752 words) - 18:04, 13 May 2024
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    Diamond Peak is a ski resort in the western United States, located in Incline Village, Nevada. Near the northeast shore of Lake Tahoe, the resort has...
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    and electrodes. Under high pressures and temperatures it converts to diamond. It is a good (but not excellent) conductor of both heat and electricity...
    72 KB (8,208 words) - 06:34, 1 May 2024
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    Mutiny, received, on his retirement from the service, a grant of land yielding only Rs 250 for life. Abdul Karim, at the age of 26, had received a perpetual...
    47 KB (6,526 words) - 17:21, 11 April 2024
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    on the rebound. In 2017, a record 3.6 million tourists visited Israel, yielding a 25 percent growth since 2016 and contributed NIS 20 billion to the Israeli...
    408 KB (39,120 words) - 15:27, 28 May 2024
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    high-technology and industrial manufacturing. The Israeli diamond industry is one of the world's centers for diamond cutting and polishing, amounting to 23.2% of all...
    138 KB (11,499 words) - 09:40, 26 May 2024
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    hardness of sapphires – 9 on the Mohs scale (the third hardest mineral, after diamond at 10 and moissanite at 9.5) – sapphires are also used in some non-ornamental...
    75 KB (7,537 words) - 13:01, 20 May 2024
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    trunk and branches. When mature, the tree is considered a heavy bearer, yielding up to 700 fruits in a crop. When ripe, the fruit puff outwards, with a...
    8 KB (835 words) - 19:05, 10 January 2024
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    butts of pool cues. As a result of unsustainable harvesting, many species yielding ebony are now considered threatened. Most indigenous ebony in Africa in...
    7 KB (716 words) - 08:24, 1 May 2024
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    has several areas with deposits of diamonds and gold. The Birrimian area in the north is one of the main gold yielding areas. Mining in the country is the...
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