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Contents: Diamond History Identification Formation Where and how
to extract diamonds? The well-known diamonds
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Diamond - the firmest substance on the Earth. - is
the crystal updating of pure carbon.
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History: The name diamond is derived from the ancient Greek αδάμας (adámas),
"proper", "unalterable", "unbreakable, untamed". Diamonds are thought to have been
first recognized and mined in India, where significant alluvial deposits of the stone could be found many centuries ago along the rivers Penner, Krishna, and Godavari.
12.01 g·mol-1 Color - Typically yellow, brown or gray to colorless.
Less often blue, green, black, translucent white, pink, violet, orange, purple and red. Crystal habit - Octahedral Crystal system - Isometric-Hexoctahedral Fracture - Conchoidal (shell-like) Mohs scale – hardness 10 Streak – Colorless Specific gravity - 3.52±0.01 Density - 3.5–3.53 g/cm3 Optical properties - Isotropic Dispersion - 0.044
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Formation The conditions for diamond formation to happen in
the lithospheric mantle occur at considerable depth corresponding to
the requirements of temperature and pressure. These depths are estimated between 140 and 190 km though occasionally diamonds have crystallized at depths about 300 km as well. Also diamonds formed in diamantiferous kimberlites and volcanic pipe.
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Where and how to extract diamonds? Ordinary diamonds
are and extracted worldwide in the special volcanic breed,
named a kimberlite. Now diamonds are extract from two types of deposits: radical (kimberlites and lamproite pipes) and secondary – scatterings. The main center of extraction there were South African countries and minor - Brazil.