Diamonds Facts

Real diamonds can be made from peanut butter!

Fewer than 1% of all gem-quality diamonds are truly colorless, with D-color diamonds being the rarest and most valuable.

Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.

The largest diamond ever found was an astounding 3,106 carats!

The best diamonds are colored blue-white.

Real diamonds do not show up on x-ray.

There's a company in Switzerland called Algordanza that will turn your ashes into a diamond for your family.

Scientists from Edinburgh University found a way to turn peanut butter into diamonds.

There's a man named Raffi Stepanian who mines diamonds and gold from New York City sidewalks, making over $600 in one week.

Deep inside Neptune and Uranus, heat and pressure squeeze carbon from methane into diamonds that sink toward the core. In 2017, scientists at SLAC recreated the conditions and watched diamonds form.