NK54801BLK from the Belle Collection is an engagement ring suited for the starring damsel of the film noir era, modernized and reborn for the 21st century. This ring takes the classic elements of a solitaire engagement ring and revamps them to create something wholly original. Gleaming black gold grips a lustrous string of black diamonds to form an eternally circling band. A single radiant white diamond will be illuminated in dramatic contrast to the brilliant black band, shining a spotlight on your diamond center.
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Mysterious and alluring the luster of a black diamond is wholly out of this world. But you may be asking yourself, what is a black diamond? Is it a diamond at all? The answer is yes! And their theoretical origins may add even more intrigue.
Also known as “carbonado,” a term coined by the Portuguese in mid-18th century Brazil, the black diamond has long been one of the most enigmatic geological occurrences. Most intriguingly, many studies (most notably by geoscientist Stephen Haggerty, Ph.D and colleagues at Florida International University in Miami) have linked the existence and creation of black diamonds with interstellar space. That’s right; your black diamond could actually be a fallen star!
Let’s begin with the fact that a black diamond can only be found in Brazil and the Central African Republic, making them especially rare. Neither place is especially rich in kimberlite, a volcanic rock formed deep within the mantle known for containing diamonds. It’s been concluded that the sparkling gems we recognize today were formed deep within the earth because of the immense amount of heat and pressure needed to have converted the carbon. Those diamonds were then pushed to the surface by volcanic eruptions between 100 million and one billion years ago. But “carbonados” are actually several billion years older than that, 3.8 billion years old actually, which makes their presence in young, looser alluvial deposits all the more perplexing.
Source: Space.com
They are also rich in hydrogen and nitrogen, much like diamonds formed within the bellies of supernovas in space. And unlike white diamonds, black diamonds are isolated to two locations. The hypothesis then concludes that the black diamond was created in a hydrogen and nitrogen rich stellar explosion and then those diamond clusters were sent hurdling through space. And so the stars fell, that is until they ran into our lovely planet and embedded themselves on the surface of Brazil and Africa, which would have at that point still been fused as the super-continent of Pangaea. Slowly the continents drifted and loose sediment began to build above the extraterrestrial star dust. This explains both their isolated incidence as well as their presence along the surface of the earth rather than deep within it.
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