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The pink diamonds comes in shades ranging from a pastel rose, such as the Pink Orchid to intense purple-reds of the Moussaieff Red, and the price is determined by the intensity of the color.  Pink diamonds have sold for up to $1,000,000 a carat.  Unlike the Type I diamonds that derived their color from impurities imbedded in the diamond, Pink diamonds are considered a Type II and get their color from a process known as Plastic Deformation.

Graff Pink Supreme Diamond 

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Resolving power is not as well understood as the magnification of telescopes. Yet it is more important. This article explains resolution, what it is, and how to calculate it.

Magnification of a telescope is easy to understand. The higher the power the closer the look we get at images in the night sky (the bigger they look).  Resolution is another critical component of telescopes and it is very easy to understand if you think of it like television sets. Older televisions have a certain number of lines of resolution and the new high definition sets have many more lines of resolution so you get a sharper and more detailed image.  The same applies to telescopes; the higher the resolution the more lines of information we get so the better the image.  And this resolution has nothing to do with magnification. If you get closer to your television does the image get sharper? No. It just gets bigger. The resolution remains the same.

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Yellow diamonds are colored because of the impurities that are trapped inside diamonds when they are created.  If a few of the millions of carbon atoms have been replaced by nitrogen atoms, then structure of the diamond will not be significantly altered but the clarity will be changed.  The amount of color displayed is dependent on the amount of nitrogen involved.

Yellow Diamonds 

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This article explores the history of horology (the way we measure time).

Mankind
has always been preoccupied with measuring and recording the passage of time.
Timekeeping has been essential for the development of civilisations; from knowing when to plant or
harvest crops to identifying important events in the year.

Time has
historically been measured in relation to the movement of the Earth; a
day, is one revolution of the planet; while a year is an entire orbit of the
Sun. Calendars were developed
from as far back as 20,000 years ago when hunter-gatherers scratched
lines and gouged holes in sticks and bones to possibly count the days between
phases of the moon.

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