Taking Stock
M Vainer
Natural fancy colours are “truly nature’s aberrations”, says diamond expert Richard Vainer. They only form when conditions are on the edge of ‘possible’ for diamond formation, this can create shifts in the crystal structure, or when impurities such as nitrogen (which colours diamonds yellow) or, more rarely, boron (which colours the diamond blue) are present.
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