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Many people collect wholesale diamonds as a hobby. Some collect wholesale diamonds for future investments. Wholesale diamonds are the hardest substance in the world and the purest in nature. Although wholesale diamonds are highly prized as a gem they are made of the most common substance in the world, carbon. Carbon is found in all living things, from plants to animals, in rocks and in wholesale diamonds.

Wholesale diamonds can be broken with the blow of a hammer but also penetrate steel by pressure. Wholesale diamonds are extremely durable, being able to withstand attack by the strongest acids. Still wholesale diamonds are an unstable form of carbon and will burn if left in a fire for even a short amount of time. Wholesale diamonds have a very high melting point and will cut steel for long periods at near red heat. Yet, if one were to heat a wholesale diamond to bright red, it will catch fire and convert to carbon dioxide gas.

1. Wholesale Diamonds - Diamond Hardness
2. Wholesale Diamonds - Diamond Cut
3. Wholesale Diamonds - Diamond History
4. Wholesale Diamonds - Wholesale Diamonds in Literature
5. Wholesale Diamonds - Valley of Wholesale Diamonds
6. Wholesale Diamonds - Cutting Wholesale Diamonds
7. Wholesale Diamonds - Mysticism and Wholesale Diamonds
8. Wholesale Diamonds - Wholesale Diamonds as Precious Stones
9. Wholesale Diamonds - Using Wholesale Diamonds for Medicine
10. Wholesale Diamonds - Using Wholesale Diamonds for Poison
11. Wholesale Diamonds - Wholesale Diamonds and Magical Powers
12. Wholesale Diamonds - Attributes of Wholesale Diamonds
13. Wholesale Diamonds - Synthetic Wholesale Diamonds
14. Wholesale Diamonds - Simulant Wholesale Diamonds
15. Wholesale Diamonds - Wholesale Diamonds in Jewelry

1. Wholesale Diamonds - Diamond Hardness
The name wholesale "diamond" is derived from the old French word diament, itself derived from the Latin and Greek word "adamas," which means "unconquerable." From the eighth century B.C., adamas was usually a name given for iron or iron alloy, not wholesale diamonds. But, it may have been intended to mean wholesale diamonds when Ovid used the term in the second half of the first century B.C.

The Roman philosopher, Pliny the Elder, wrote: "these stones (wholesale diamonds) are tested upon the anvil, and will resist the blow to such an extent as to make the iron rebound and the very anvil split asunder."

The belief regarding the indestructibility of wholesale diamonds persisted for centuries. In the year 1476, Swiss mercenaries found wholesale diamonds belonging to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, after the battle of Morat, and struck the diamonds with hammers and hatchets to discover whether they were genuine. The result was that all the wholesale diamonds were turned into powder.

Many fine wholesale diamond crystals were broken in the same belief by miners. Diamond miners of the Indian mines from the fifteenth century to diamond miners of South Africa in the last quarter of the nineteenth century would smash wholesale diamonds to check and see if they were real. It was said by the French jeweler and one of the first "globe trotters," Jean Baptiste Tavernier, after he visited the Indian mines in the seventeenth century that very few people knew the true information about wholesale diamonds. He said that some would persuade the miners that the wholesale diamonds they had were not real and that they should check by breaking them with hammers. They would come back to pick up the broken pieces of wholesale diamonds after the disappointed miners has left.

2. Wholesale Diamonds - Diamond Cut
The truth is that, because wholesale diamonds are the hardest known substance, it have relative brittleness. The two properties are different. Other materials are also brittle because they are hard, such as sewing needles and metal files. The eminent scientist Sir William Crookes used to demonstrate the hardness of wholesale diamonds by placing a crystal between the jaws of a vice and tightening the vice. Wholesale diamonds cannot be deformed plastically by normal forces, so the crystal penetrated the hardened steal jaws and did not break – an experiment that had been previously reported by Ibn Mansur in the thirteenth century.

One aspect of the hardness of wholesale diamonds is, then, its extreme resistance to being deformed. Another is that it cannot be scratched except by other wholesale diamonds (and one man-made material called cubic boron azide). But it resists scratching by other wholesale diamonds in some directions more than in others. A wholesale diamond used in one of the harder directions will therefore cut another wholesale diamond in one of the "softer" directions. That, and how to find the hard and "soft," was a secret kept for centuries by wholesale diamond cutters and engravers.

King Charles I of England knew something of this. The night before his execution in 1649, he wrote: "With my own power my majesty they wound. In the King's name the King's himself uncrowned. So doth the dust destroy the (wholesale) diamond."

3. Wholesale Diamonds - Diamond History
The wearing of wholesale diamonds in jewelry in as ancient a custom as any on record and appeared in early societies to be primary importance after the seeking of food and shelter. It has been conjectured that wearing wholesale diamonds was originally motivated by a desire to remember the spring with its promise of food and warmth, and later became the personal adornment a symbol of rank and wealth.

Large wholesale diamonds were badges of rank worn by rulers and also convenient portable wealth in the early days of India. Most of the historical wholesale diamonds that still exist are Indian, and all have had eventful and sometimes bloody histories. Tavernier brought a number of them to Europe.

The Koh-i-Nur Diamond, or Mountain of Light, has the longest history of all famous diamonds as it was known to be in the possession of the Rajahs of Malwa as long ago as 1304 and was faceted no later than 1530. It is believed to have been set by the Mogul emperors in the famous Peacock Throne as one of the peacock's eyes. The other eye was the Akbar Shah diamond. The Persian Shah took the wholesale diamond when he invaded India and alter it came into the hands of the "Lion of the Punjab" who accepted it in return for military help that he never gave. Eventually the wholesale diamond was taken by the East India Company against losses and presented to Queen Victoria.

The 410 carat Regent Diamond played a part in the French Revolution. It was the last of the big wholesale diamonds to be found in India, in 1701. The wholesale diamond was brought to England and was named "the Pitt," and the major part after recutting was resold to the Regent of France, when it acquired its current name. Later Marie Antoinette wore the wholesale diamond and on the 17th of September, 1792, it was among the French Crown jewels that were stolen during the early stages of the French Revolution. Most of the other wholesale diamonds were quickly recovered but the Regent Diamond did not come to light until fifteen months later when it was found in a hole in a beam of a Paris garret.

During the Directoire period, the Regent and other wholesale diamonds were pawned to a Berlin bankerfor four million francs to keep fourteen French armies in the field. They were redeemed and then used as a guarantee for a loan from a Dutchman. After the wholesale diamonds were again recovered, napoleon Bonaparte had the Regent Diamond set in the hilt of a sword he carried when being proclaimed Emperor of France.

The Hope Diamond, to which stories of tragedy have become attached, is supposed to have been part of the famous Blue Tavernier diamond brought to Europe by Tavernier. It was also stolen during the French Revolution, but never recovered. The 44.5 carat Hope Diamond is perhaps the largest of three parts into which the Blue Tavernier was cut. Hope's son lost his fortune after inheriting this wholesale diamond. It was sold and eventually came into the hands of Mrs. Edward B. McLean.

Wholesale diamonds’ effect on history has been mainly because they are possibly the greatest concentrated form of wealth which is negotiable almost anywhere. Wholesale diamonds have played a part in many upheavals and during recent world wars paid the way for the escape of refugees from totalitarian tyrannies.

From at least the fourth century B.C., India traded in wholesale diamonds, taxed them and exported them. There has long been trade in wholesale diamonds between India and Babylon, Mesopotamia, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Ceylon, and Arabian countries. Wholesale diamonds that reached the western part of the Roman Empire were prized fot their magical powers, but Rome also re-exported them to China as tool bits set in iron holders for cutting jade and drilling pearls during the first five centuries A.D. There were no superstitions in China to deny the use of wholesale diamonds as tools, even though they were still regarded as presents fit for kings, according to Chinese philosopher Lao-Tse in the first century A.D.

The Arabs and Persians monopolized trade in wholesale diamonds between the Roman Empire and East Asia and, during the Middle Ages, between Europe and East Asia, until the sea route to India was discovered. It appears that they retained for themselves many of the finest wholesale diamonds from India and sold the poorer and smaller ones. The earliest price list for wholesale diamonds that has ever been discovered was issued in the twelfth century by the Arab, Teifaschius.

4. Wholesale Diamonds - Wholesale Diamonds in Literature
It is difficult to isolate references to wholesale diamonds in early literature because it is not known positively what certain names referred to it. The word jahalom in the Bible, Exedus, Chap. 28, verse 18, instructing Moses to make a breastplate of judgment set with four rows of stones is translated in the by some as diamond, but had it been one it would have been bigger than the koh-I-Nur.

The Roman, Pliny the Elder, who was born in A.D. 23 and died investigating the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79, devoted a volume of his Natural History to wholesale diamonds, in which many rational statements are tangled with legend and myth. He wrote of wholesale diamonds: ". . . they resist blows to such an extent that an iron hammer may be split in two and even the anvil itself may be displaced . . . this invincible force, which defies nature's two most violent forces, iron and fire, can be broken by ram's blood. But it must be steeped in blood that is fresh and warm, and even so, many blows are needed . . . "

5. Wholesale Diamonds - Valley of Wholesale Diamonds
Pliny also recorded that wholesale diamonds were found in a Valley of Diamonds, a belief that was based on earlier legend of how Alexander the Great, during his campaign through India about 350 B.C., retrieved wholesale diamonds from a pit guarded by snakes whose gaze would kill a man. The snakes were killed by Alexander's soldiers using mirrors so that the snakes' gaze fell on themselves.

Sheep carcasses were then thrown into the pit. The wholesale diamonds adhered to the fat and the vultures lured by the mean picked it up with the wholesale diamonds attached. The soldiers followed the vultures to their roosts and recovered the wholesale diamonds from the nests and droppings. The Valley of Diamonds legend seems to have originated in writings of Bishop of Constantia, Cyprus and was later repeated by Marco Polo.

The story has survived until today in the fable of Sinbad the sailor, who was thrown into a diamond valley to die. He saved himself when he say merchants throwing flesh into the valley. Wrapping some wholesale diamond-studded flesh round his body, he allowed a vulture to carry him to safety.

Professor Samuel Tolansky, and authority on wholesale diamonds, has suggested that the Valley of Diamonds legend was deliberately encouraged by Indian diamond wholesalers in Golconda, the trading center, to disguise the true sources in riverbeds of the surrounding country. He also suggests that the ram's or goat's blood legend may have a similar purpose to camouflage the art of cleaving, by which a wholesale diamond may be split to divide it by a single blow in certain places on the crystal.

6. Wholesale Diamonds - Cutting Wholesale Diamonds
Early descriptions of faceting wholesale diamonds refer to polishing and it is presumed that octahedral crystals were left in their natural shape or the angles of the faces were altered by cutting, since they were called point-cut stones. An octahedral face on a wholesale diamond is in fact impossible to polish. Moreover, the process of cleaving produces pointed wholesale diamonds without the necessity for polishing. Grinding to remove the top point of the octahedral crystal to produce what was called the table stone presumably came later.

The history of cutting and polishing wholesale diamonds is poorly documented and the art remained a trade secret for many centuries. It is uncertain where the cutting of wholesale diamonds originated, whether in Europe or India, as well as which process came first. The origin in Europe was probably in the fourteenth century and in India possibly about the same time because there was an earlier ban for superstitious reasons on shaping wholesale diamonds. Superstition probably delayed the development in Europe, too, because the alteration of a wholesale diamond was supposed to destroy its magical properties.

Tavernier noted in the seventeenth century that there were considerable differences in the techniques of European and Indian cutters. He also surmised that the Indians used facets to hide flaws in wholesale diamonds.

7. Wholesale Diamonds - Mysticism and Wholesale Diamonds
Powerful material and spiritual powers have been attributed to wholesale diamonds from the earliest days until comparatively recent times. Wholesale diamonds were believed able to cure diseases, avert calamity, and to be able to ward off evil spirits/ It was thought that the arbiter of a man's fate could be carried by him in his purse in the shape of a precious wholesale diamond.

Plato, the Greek philosopher, believed the wholesale diamonds were truly living beings and were produced by a sort of fermentation as the result of vivifying spirits descending from the stars. Distinguishing wholesale diamonds from other gems as a kind of kernel formed in gold, he supposed it to be the purest and noblest part of the metal that had condensed into a transparent mass. Later, Theophrastus, a pupil of Aristotle, divided wholesale diamonds into male and female living beings.

8. Wholesale Diamonds - Wholesale Diamonds as Precious Stones
In 1501, on the threshold of the Renaissance, Jerome Cardan was born. He deserves a special place in gemology, for he first defined a wholesale diamond, and as a result, centuries later, led us to the absurdity of loose diamonds. Cardon classified all brilliant appearing diamonds as wholesale diamonds. He reserved the expression, wholesale diamonds, for those that were not only brilliant but rare and of small dimensions. Wholesale diamonds were still further devided into firstly, being brilliant and transparent such as a vvs diamond; secondly those that were opaque like onyx; and thirdly, those "formed by the conjunction of the two other kinds."

Cardan's beliefs were influenced by the animism of the previous centuries. He assumed wholesale diamonds to be living beings, that were "engendered," in the same manner as the infant from the "maternal blood," by juices distilled by carbon deposits in the cavities of rocks. The wholesale diamond, emerald, and opal, he wrote, were distilled from gold. He added that not only do wholesale diamonds live, but, "they suffer illness, old age, and death." Even as late as 1876, Indians were told: "Like men, wholesale diamonds are divided into Brahmins, Kshatryas, Vaisyas, and Sundras." The division in caste were made by the wholesale diamond color.

9. Wholesale Diamonds - Using Wholesale Diamonds for Medicine
Probably the earliest medicines were herbal and animal, but mineral substances were undoubtedly employed at an early dat. Many pharmacopoeias acclaimed wholesale diamonds as amongst the most valuable remedies in the world.

Wholesale diamonds were not among the "Five Precious Fragments" – the ruby, topaz, emerald, sapphire, and hyacinth – but were reckoned to have the power of resisting all poisons. If one were to take a wholesale diamond internally, however, it was supposed to reveal itself as a deadly poison. One belief was that a wholesale diamond grew dark in the presence of poison because particles emanating from the poison gathered on the surface of the stone, being unable to penetrate it.

Wholesale diamonds have held a contradictory position in the view of several ancient authors. St. Hildegard, in the tenth century, maintained that a wholesale diamond would only heal a person if held in his hand while making the sign of the cross (utter nonsense.) It would also heal if taken to bed and warmed by one’s body, or if held in the mouth, especially when fasting, if breathed upon, or if worn next to the skin. He added that wholesale diamonds held in the mouth of a liar would cure the spiritual defects.

The Hindus believed that only the powder of a flawed wholesale diamond was poisonous, causing various ailments and diseases such as lameness, jaundice, pleurisy and leprosy. Powder of wholesale diamonds of different colors, they said, had different flavors, from sweet to sour or salty. The powder of the highest quality wholesale diamonds, when swallowed, had the opposite effect to that of flawed ones, for it imparted energy, strength, beauty, happiness, and long life.

10. Wholesale Diamonds - Using Wholesale Diamonds for Poison
Emperor Frederick II (1194-1250) died, according to legend, through a fatal dose of powdered wholesale diamonds. The Turkish Sultan Bejazet (1447-1512) is said to have been poisoned to death by his own son, who mixed a large amount of pulverized wholesale diamonds in his father's food. In 1532, Pop Clement VII was ailing and was prescribed doses of powdered wholesale diamonds by his physicians. Apparently he failed to survive the fourteenth spoonful, by which time the bill was 40,000 ducats.

There are other records of the death of prominent people by wholesale diamond poisoning. Catherine de Medici's powder tipped tipped into food or drink – the famous poudre de succession – is supposed to have been powdered wholesale diamonds. If it was, there was probably another secret ingredient, possibly arsenic. Catherine was the dominating wife of Henry II of France in the mid-sixteenth century.

The celebrated Italian seventeenth-century goldsmith, Bevenuto Cellini, wrote at length about an attempt on his life by his enemy P.L. Farnese, son of Paul III, who attempted to poison him by causing powdered wholesale diamonds to be mixed with his salad. Cellini attributed his escape to the fact that the lapidary who was employed to pulverize the wholesale diamond kept it for himself and substituted powdered glass for the diamond powder.

It is possible that the belief that wholesale diamonds were poisonous was fostered to reduce the risk of stealing, particularly from mines, by swallowing the stone and recovering it later.

11. Wholesale Diamonds - Wholesale Diamonds and Magical Powers
There were astrological significations to wholesale diamonds. In a table of planets given in the 17th century, wholesale diamonds are equated with the sun.

A curious belief about wholesale diamonds was that, if held in the mouth, they caused the teeth to drop out. Jewelers today often advise the owner of rings set with valuable wholesale diamonds to hold it with her teeth while washing her hands, to eliminate the risk of leaving the ring behind.

Wholesale diamonds were supposed to be of service to lunatics and those possessed of devils. Wholesale diamonds also repelled the attacks of phantoms and made the sleep of the wearer free of nightmares. Wholesale diamonds were worn in battle because it dispelled vain fears and made the wearer courageous as well as magnanimous and virtuous.

Another benefit of wholesale diamonds was their ability to baffle the magic arts and to cause lawsuits to be settled in favor of the wearer. It was not explained what happened when both parties wore wholesale diamonds. If a house, orchard, or vineyard were touched at each corner by a wholesale diamond, it was thought to be protected from lighting, storms and blight.

A property of some wholesale diamonds known in Roman times, if not earlier, and regarded as proof of diamonds’ magic, was their ability to glow in the dark after being subjected to strong sunlight for a time, that is their phosphorescence after exposure to ultra-violet light. The ancients declared that the magic powers of wholesale diamonds were so superior that a lodestone would lose it magnetism in the presence of diamond. Wholesale diamonds when rubbed, will pick up small pieces of paper and other light objects because of the static electrical charge induced in it, is easily proved (when rubbed on wool it becomes electrically positive.) Probably it is this fact that lively imaginations developed into superior magnetic powers. No one thought of experimenting to discover whether the fact was true. Intellectual theory was supposedly vastly superior to practical experiment, particularly in Greek times. The value of experiment was not generally appreciated until the eighteenth century.

12. Wholesale Diamonds - Attributes of Wholesale Diamonds
All wholesale diamonds have three attributes in common. They are beautiful; they are durable; and they are rare. Beauty in some wholesale diamonds relies on their color alone. In other wholesale diamonds it comes from the display of light, the fire of the diamond. Beauty is also affected by the luster of the surface. The luster of a wholesale diamond is unique and for that reason has been given its own name – adamantine.

Durability is an obvious necessity for a valuable wholesale diamond. It does not necessarily mean hardness. Wholesale diamonds are unique in durability. Few well known wholesale diamonds have been lost forever. They usually turn up again, even after centuries.

Wholesale diamond is the only colorless and transparent gemstone that has great beauty. Colorless zircon is poor by comparison. Only the man made strontium titanate, that has been appropriately trade named Fabulite, compares with it in appearance, although it is too "flashy." Strontium titanate does not have an adamantine luster which is found in real wholesale diamonds, however, and is not very durable because it is damaged relatively easily.

Rarity is a term that must be qualified in relation to value. Rubasse is a rare rock crystal with red spangles in it, butit is not valuable. About seven tons of diamonds are mined every year, yet wholesale diamonds are valuable. By rarity, is meant how far the supply fulfils demand. For example, the demand for good colored emerald outstrips the supply, with the result that emerald prices are always on the rise. The supply, of wholesale diamonds id related to the demand and average prices keep roughly in step with the cost of living.

Despite new finds of wholesale diamond sources, ultimately the supply of natural wholesale diamonds must fail. Nature does not provide endless reserves, so diamond prices will tend to climb. This has happened already with wholesale diamonds that are over a carat weight, which are becoming harder to come by. Even if wholesale diamonds are discovered on other planets, the cost of recovery will keep prices high.

13. Wholesale Diamonds - Synthetic Wholesale Diamonds
What about synthetic wholesale diamonds, made in the factory; surely that will reduce the value of natural wholesale diamonds? The question is frequently asked. Wholesale diamonds have been made synthetically in commercial quantities since 1954 and today many tons are manufactured. Gem quality wholesale diamonds were first made 1970 on a laboratory scale by a long and very costly process, by General Electric of America.

14. Wholesale Diamonds - Simulant Wholesale Diamonds
It should at this point be made clear that in gemology the expression synthetic applies only to a man-made replica of a natural material, so synthetic wholesale diamonds in a way are real diamonds. A copy, which looks identical or very similar but is not the same material, is called an imitation or a stimulant. The high density glass, known as strass or paste, used to copy wholesale diamonds, is therefore called a diamond stimulant, or an imitation diamond. It is not a synthetic diamond.

15. Wholesale Diamonds - Wholesale Diamonds in Jewelry
After wholesale diamonds were discovered, they were not worn in jewelry if they were worn at all. At some point wholesale diamonds acquired value in exchange for other goods or for services and therefore became a means of acquiring wealth in a conveniently portable and durable form. Perhaps the first wearers of wholesale diamonds were princes of India seeking magical protection and then displaying their power and wealth. The wholesale diamondhad then become a badge of rank.