Olive Diamonds
If you are looking for ways to inject more sparkle into your jewelry collection, colored diamonds are the way to go. If you have reached that point when collecting colorless diamonds have become a bore, or if you are looking for something new to show your wife or the very special woman in your life, how much you love her, you might want to look into colored diamonds as well.
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Why colored diamonds? First of all, don’t you just love color? Our moods and our feelings are often affected and expressed by the colors that we wear and the colors that surround us. It should also follow that our jewelry should evoke color as well. But colored diamonds are so rare that they are extremely high priced.
The reason for their elusiveness is that it takes a certain combination of natural processes occurring in the Earth during the formation of a natural diamond that will affect the outcome of the diamond’s color. In fact, the color is more of an aberration, but a beautiful one nonetheless. It is interesting to note that the ratio of colored to colorless diamonds that surface every year is one to ten thousand.
So what are these processes that make a diamond obtain its color? For blue diamonds, it is the exposure of boron, combined with the diamond’s carbon base that gives off that blue hue. For yellow or canary diamonds, it is the presence of nitrogen that makes gives them this cheery hue.
Diamonds in the pink, brown and purple category are the result of abnormalities in the structure of a diamond. While grey, violet and olive diamonds are the result of hydrogen getting jumbled up in the diamond formation process.
Lets examine the olive colored diamond. The olive diamond is sometimes mistaken for a green diamond. Olive diamonds are unique because they occupy a three-dimensional color space adjacent to green. Even olive diamonds that are purely olive have grey, black, brown, yellow and green modifiers.
It is said that olive diamonds generally take after the color of unripe olives. On the warmer end of the olive diamond spectrum are the dominantly brown and yellow olive diamonds. The predominantly gray and green colored olive diamonds are on the cool end of the olive diamond scale.
Olive diamonds are also called asparagus diamonds, avocado diamonds, moss diamonds, sage diamonds, seaweed diamonds and of course, chameleon diamonds. Chameleons are a category of olive diamonds that change color temporarily after they have been gently heated or stored in dark conditions. The chameleon diamonds exhibit light to dark olive tones and sometimes light to medium yellow tones. The olive phase is its stable phase, and the yellow phase is called its unstable phase Chameleon diamonds are very interesting, as the change in color is very evident after storing the olive diamond for at least forty-eight hours in very dark conditions (such a in a dark safe), and then bringing them out, where they will look like yellow diamonds. Then, after awhile, they will go back to their olive diamond state. Now, isn’t this a very interesting gift to give to your loved one?
