jtotheizzoe: Mineralogists are burning the midnight oil to determine how the Hope Diamond got its blue color. Taken from its case at night, a few precious atoms are shaved off and shot through a mass spectrometer to study its chemical makeup. A particularly high concentration of boron makes diamonds like this blue, and may have come from an ocean plate being thrust into Earth’s magma-filled depths a billion years ago. (via NYTimes.com)
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jtotheizzoe:

Mineralogists are burning the midnight oil to determine how the Hope Diamond got its blue color.

Taken from its case at night, a few precious atoms are shaved off and shot through a mass spectrometer to study its chemical makeup. A particularly high concentration of boron makes diamonds like this blue, and may have come from an ocean plate being thrust into Earth’s magma-filled depths a billion years ago.

(via NYTimes.com)

Source: The New York Times

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