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THE DIAMOND
Many are the legends
tied to the diamonds: the ancient believed
that they were the tears of of the falls on the earth,
the Greeks believed that they were star fragments, many
supported the existence of one go them in Asia full
of diamonds and guarded from birds and magical snakes.
The word diamond
derives from the Greek adamas that it wants
to say inconquistabile, the diamond is the harder natural
material that the man knows, and is constituted from
a crystalline carbon reticulum.
The diamonds
were known from the man already 4,000 years ago, but
their formation is the much most ancient one and laughed
them to 2,5 billions of years.
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