Saga about Unrealized Diamonds

A. D. Pavlushin

We may often hear the words "Diamonds are girls' best friends…" from a song sang by Marilyn Monroe long ago. And we imagine dazzling iridescent light sparks flashing on ideal faces of the stone set in noble metal… Dollars multiplied by carats. A mineralogist, however, who sees another beauty and utility in the magnificent diamond, considers it as insignificant remains of a beautiful crystal that existed before. At normal lighting, this beauty of the diamond is imperceptible, and not without reason it can be compared with plain fragments of glass.

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