diamond
allotrope of carbon often used as a gemstone and an abrasive
Facts
32 properties- Instance of
- mineral species
- Subclass of
- carbon-silicon family, covalent network solid, native element mineral, allotrope of carbon, gemstone[9]
- Has use
- diamond industry, gemstone[10][11]
- Chemical formula
- C[8]
- Cleavage
- {111}[21]
- Crystal habit
- octahedron[17]
- Crystal system
- cubic crystal system[16]
- Described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa, Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Second Edition, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), New International Encyclopedia[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]
- IMA Mineral Symbol
- Dia
- IMA status and/or rank
- grandfathered mineral (G)[18]
- MCN code
- 7104.20.10[39]
- Maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Gemstones, WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry, WikiProject Geology, WikiProject Rocks and minerals, WikiProject Metalworking, WikiProject Russia, WikiProject Canada, WikiProject Africa, WikiProject South Africa, WikiProject Sierra Leone, WikiProject Botswana, WikiProject Angola
- Mineral fracture
- conchoidal fracture[15]
- Mohs' hardness
- +10[25]
- Named after
- Invincible[6]
- Nickel-Strunz '10th ed', review of (9th ed/ 2009 update)
- 1.CB.10a[24]
- Nickel-Strunz 9th edition (updated 2009)
- 1.CB.10a[23]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- Point group
- cubic-hexoctahedral[19]
- Refractive index
- +2.384[26]
🏷️ Also known as
en diamond
ar ألماس
ar الألماس
cs diamant
el διαμάντι
es diamante
fa الماس
fi timantti
he יהלום
hi हीरा
hu gyémánt
id berlian
id intan
ja ダイヤモンド
ja 金剛石
ko 다이아몬드
pl diament
ru алмаз
th เพชร
tr elmas
🔖 Identifiers · 98
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- sh85037566
- GND ID
- 4012069-7
- OpenAlex ID
- C2776921476
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
- 294907785
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID
- 367
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
- 300011084
- Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
- scot/3181
- BBC News topic ID
- c34pgz9llvzt
- BBC Things ID
- f0d1d2d4-bc51-44c4-b1d3-1ec26b9c2ecf
- BNCF Thesaurus ID
- 32579
- BabelNet ID
- 16563113n
- Baidu Tieba name
- 钻石
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- Bashenc.online ID
- 82314
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 12161401j
- Biblissima authority ID
- Coulonges
- Brilliant Wiki ID
- chemistry-of-diamonds
- CAS Registry Number
- 7782-40-3
- COD ID
- 2300702
- Canadian Encyclopedia article ID
- diamond
- ChEBI ID
- 33417
- Concepticon concept set ID
- 3878
- DSSTox substance ID
- DTXSID10905072
- Dana 8th edition
- 1.3.6.1
- De Agostini ID
- diamante
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- 553.82
- EC number
- 231-953-2
- ECHA Substance Infocard ID
- 100.029.048
- Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID
- diamante
- Encyclopedia Tatarica (ru) Online ID
- razdely/priroda/poleznye-iskopaemye/poleznye-iskopaemye/almaz
- Encyclopedia Tatarica (tt) Online ID
- razdely/priroda/poleznye-iskopaemye/fajdaly-kazylmalar/almaz
- Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID
- 43816
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- topic/diamond-gemstone
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- diamant
- Fandom article ID
- en.subnautica:Diamond_(Subnautica), en.subnautica:Diamond_(Below_Zero)
- France 24 topic ID (French)
- diamants-1
- Freebase ID
- /m/027_y
- Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)
- 3055-2050
- Giant Bomb Wiki ID
- Objects/Diamond
- Gmelin number
- 15667
- Google News topics ID
- CAAqIQgKIhtDQkFTRGdvSUwyMHZNREkzWDNrU0FuSjFLQUFQAQ
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- diamant-5
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0098910
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- diamant
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 1814113
- Harper's tag
- diamonds
- IMDb keyword
- diamond
- J9U entity ID
- 987007553034805171
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)
- diamonds
- KBpedia ID
- Diamond-Gem
- Kivid.info ID
- 818
- Klexikon article ID
- Diamant
- Krugosvet article (archived)
- Earth_sciences/geologiya/ALMAZ.html
- Lex ID
- diamant
- MeSH descriptor ID
- D018130
- MeSH tree code
- D01.268.150.200
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
- 2776921476
- Mindat mineral ID
- 1282
- Minerals.net mineral and gemstone ID
- gemstone/diamond_gemstone, mineral/diamond
- Museum-digital tag ID
- 14280
- NDL Authority ID
- 00561237
- NL CR AUT ID
- ph136887
- Namuwiki ID
- 다이아몬드
- National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
- term/D991248B-CDA0-4736-BF8B-C3989D828948
- National Library of Poland MMS ID
- 9810646775805606
- New York Times topic ID
- subject/diamonds
- NicoNicoPedia word article ID
- ダイヤモンド
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
- 416537
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3892443
- PACTOLS thesaurus ID
- pcrtcTqKm5ufUF
- PM20 ware ID
- 142251
- Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
- ダイヤモンド
- Quora topic ID
- Diamonds
- RKD thesaurus ID
- 75209
- RxNorm CUI
- 1362686
- STW Thesaurus for Economics ID
- 14225-6
- SVKKL authority ID
- 0223429-diamanty
- ScienceDirect topic ID
- engineering/diamond
- Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
- materias/1001057
- Stack Exchange tag
- physics.stackexchange.com
- Topic's main category
- Category:Diamond
- Treccani ID
- diamante
- Treccani Vocabulary ID
- diamante
- Treccani's Dizionario delle Scienze Fisiche ID
- diamante
- Treccani's Dizionario di Economia e Finanza ID
- diamante
- Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
- diamante, diamante_res-9ec62bb6-87e5-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51, diamante_res-ac35e348-87e7-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51
- U.S. National Archives Identifier
- 10647959
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID
- 9639
- UMLS CUI
- C0057717
- UN Thesaurus ID
- 1001641
- UNII
- 6GRV67N0U2
- Vikidia article ID
- fr:Diamant
- Wellcome Collection concept ID
- nj6v3rg2
- WikiKids ID
- Diamant
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
- 14858733-n
- YSO ID
- 12930
- Yale LUX ID
- concept/be9ffc25-5270-46c6-994f-e3a49ecbdf84
🔗 Connections
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Examples 44
← Product or material produced 26
Subtypes 13
Described by source 6
Named after 6
Subclass of 4
← Field of work 4
Has use 2
On focus list of Wikimedia project 2
← Category combines topics 2
← Category's main topic 2
← Facet of 2
← Industry 2
Belongs to 1
Crystal habit 1
Crystal system 1
Different from 1
Has part(s) 1
Made from material 1
Mineral fracture 1
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Streak color 1
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Summary
diamond is a mineral species[1]. diamond is a type of carbon-silicon family[2], covalent network solid[3], native element mineral[4], and allotrope of carbon[5].
Body
Works and Contributions
Things named for diamond include Diamantina[43], a municipality of Brazil[44], in Brazil[45]; paradox of value[46], a paradox[47]; demantoid[48], a mineral variety[49]; Almaz[50], a cruiser[51]; diamond graph[52], an uniquely Hamiltonian graph[53]; and Diamant[54], a train service[55], in Belgium[56], founded in 1962[57].
Why It Matters
Entities named for diamond include Diamantina[43], a municipality of Brazil[44], in Brazil[45]; paradox of value[46], a paradox[47]; demantoid[48], a mineral variety[49]; Almaz[50], a cruiser[51]; diamond graph[52], an uniquely Hamiltonian graph[53]; and Diamant[54], a train service[55], in Belgium[56], founded in 1962[57].