Diamond: Meaning, Colours, and the Two Scales That Run in Opposite Directions
Diamond is April's birthstone and the most famous gem on Earth, yet almost nobody understands its strangest quirk: colour works two completely opposite ways. For a normal white diamond, colour is a flaw you pay to avoid, and the whole prize is being colourless. Push past the end of that scale into a true fancy colour and everything flips, so the same colour that was a defect becomes the single most valuable thing about the stone. Here is the honest guide to what diamond means, why colourless is the goal for white diamonds and the D-to-Z scale that grades it, why pink, blue, yellow, and red diamonds break every rule and cost fortunes, what actually causes each colour, how to spot a natural fancy from a treated one, and how to buy and care for the hardest gem there is.
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