Sentences with phrase «diamond the size of»

A brilliant - cut diamond the size of a pinkie nail rolls around the crease.

You wear a diamond the size of a kiwi, the caterer served lobster profiteroles, a bagpiper led everyone in a procession from the church to the catering hall, and your whitened teeth looked as unnatural as Eva Longoria's.

I did however think he missed one possibility, maybe he really does have a diamond the size of a fridge buried in his backyard.

Not exact matches

That's the day when Lucara's monster rough diamond — 1,109 carats and «roughly the size of an avocado» — is going up for auction by Sotheby's International Jewellery Division in London, England.

Shortly after it closed, BMO Capital Markets mining analyst Edward Sterck told the Northern Miner that choosing mining over retail made sense for the company, given the number and size of diamond mines expected to come on stream over the next few years.

«Diamonds of this quality, with this extraordinary depth and sophistication of colour, and of this size are unfathomably rare,» the auctioneer's website says.

The diamond — which is the size of a tennis ball — was unearthed in Botswana by the Lucara Diamond Corporation.

The stock surged 30 percent on Nov. 19, when it announced the discovery of the diamond, second in size only to the Cullinan diamond cut into the Great Star of Africa gem in the British Crown jewels.

The Letseng mine is famous for the size and quality of the diamonds it produces and has the highest average selling price in the world.

Through partnerships with a diamond - growing lab and cutters around the world, Eterneva is taking your loved ones and turning them into gems of your own design, size, and color preference.

The results discussed in this news release are from drill core samples obtained by PQ and HQ - size triple - tube diamond core drilling using two PMC400 man - portable drill rigs owned by SAMJ and operated by Sumiko Resources Exploration & Development Co., Ltd. (a wholly owned exploration services subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.) The drilling program was fully supervised by SAMJ senior project geologists at the drilling site.

Brush the top layer of phyllo dough with butter and using a very sharp knife cut the baklava into either squares or diamonds that are about 2 or 3 square inches in size.

Nielsen was rolling out its newest system: a flagrantly advanced media system, with a computer, printer, Internet, and fully decked out, gold - plated platinum black diamond level satellite service - all of it connected to a TV the size of a wall.

Last fall, the park district bought the property at the southeast corner of Devon Avenue and Arlington Heights Road with hopes of developing the grounds for four baseball diamonds, two overlapping football / soccer fields, three down - sized sports fields and a parking lot with accommodations for 265 vehicles.

They all vary, however, in the size and number of the diamonds included.

The current record for largest entangled objects belongs to two millimeter - sized chips of diamonds linked over 15 centimeters.

Each of the hundreds of diamonds in this pendant is a uniform shape and size in the I - J color and I3 clarity level.

To do so will require a purpose - built space telescope and a parasol the size of a baseball diamond

Carats: The carats are good indicators of the size and quality of the diamonds.

To generate an accurate picture of the temperature profile within the Earth's centre, scientists can look at the melting point of iron at different pressures in the laboratory, using a diamond anvil cell to compress speck - sized samples to pressures of several million atmospheres, and powerful laser beams to heat them to 4000 or even 5000 degrees Celsius.

And at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, researchers are demonstrating how to fabricate a larger - scale starshade's delicate petals, fold the entire structure up inside a rocket, and deploy and unfurl it to the size of a baseball diamond.

The researchers performed hundreds of indentation tests on tiny olivine crystals less than a centimeter square and found that the olivine crystal became weaker as the size of the diamond tip increased.

The stone's noble gas content supports an extraterrestrial origin, while the presence of tiny diamonds — larger than nanodiamonds found in a common kind of meteorite called chondrites, but similar in size to diamond aggregates known to be formed by impacts — supports a cometary origin.

Only the minute diamond frog, R. minuta, shares the morphology of R. longicrus save its size.

The Almahata Sitta meteorites are mostly ureilites, a rare type of stony meteorite that often contains clusters of nano - sized diamonds.

Smith and colleagues screened thousands of diamonds submitted daily to the grading operations of the Gemological Institute of America, searching for appropriately sized samples with detectable inclusions.

This level of internal pressure can only be explained if the planetary parent body was a Mercury - to Mars - sized planetary «embryo,» depending on the layer in which the diamonds were formed.

The size of the diamonds varied, most being larger than 10 millimeters but some reaching sizes of 98 millimeters, similar to the Cullinan diamond discovered in South Africa in 1905 and subsequently cut for some of the British Crown Jewels.

«From 423 miles in space, we'll be able to see an object the size of home plate on a baseball diamond,» says Brender.

An ice - cube - sized crystal can be diced with a diamond saw to make 1,000 identical rectangular prisms, a process that enthralls Agranat, even though he's watched it hundreds of times.

Embedded in an artificial diamond will be four hollow gold pellets, the size of BBs, containing samples of air, seawater, soil — the life - giving elements — and human blood.

By using light, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have manipulated the quantum state of a single atomic - sized defect in diamond — the nitrogen - vacancy center — in a method that not only allows for more unified control than conventional processes, but is more versatile, and opens up the possibility of exploring new solid - state quantum systems.

Lead author James Wood describes the technique as «a dramatic simplification of the nuclear detection process, where we essentially shine light on an atomic - sized defect in diamond and observe its natural response, at a fundamentally quantum level, to the target nuclear spins nearby.»

The X-ray snapshots provide information about the size of the diamonds and the details of the chemical reaction as it occurs.

Performing 800 nanoindentation experiments in which they varied the size of the indentation by varying the load applied to the diamond tip pressed into the sample, the research team found that the smaller the size of the indent, the harder, and thus stronger, olivine became.

New research suggests the diamonds packed inside these meteorites could have only formed within a planetary body the size of Mercury or Mars — a planet that no longer exists.

Points illustrate the mean probability that a tiger population of given starting size will decline to extinction over 1,000 model simulations both with canine distemper virus (CDV) infection (black dots) and a control scenario without CDV (open diamonds).

I inherited some of her rings, which are one - stone glories of huge size (alas, no diamonds, because that wasn't her style; instead she'd go to Buenos Aires and pick up a huge, pink amethyst, or another, also huge, citrine).

Choose this in either gold or platinum, and in one of two sizes, either.24 carat or nearly half a carat total diamond weight, then, wait for the sparkle!

«Sizing assistants will decrease the ring by approximately a quarter of a size, but they're more often used to address issues like the swinging of a top - heavy and large diamond ring.

5 motifs in 3 sizes with 161 diamonds for a total of 5.64 carats.

You can pick out the style, metal, quality of the diamonds or gemstones, carat size - you name it and they can do it!

Needless to say I had a blast, I mean, trying on the finest jewellery and diamonds of all sizes isn't really that hard and not something I do on a daily basis.

There are four sizes to choose from ranging from.51 carat to 1 carats of total diamond weight.

Customize a pair of these amazing diamond studs in your favorite metal type (gold or platinum), diamond quality and size.

• Size:.625 «L x.375 «W pendant, 15» chain with 2» extender •.39 total carat weight • Material: white pavé diamonds * Signature required upon delivery of fine jewelry orders.

But because of the design and the size of the pearl with the smaller diamonds, the pieces have an edge that I love.

When designing your jewelry on Anjolee, you will have the option to select the center diamond of your choice based on the available sizes / carat weights for each particular design.

Models of all shapes and sizes graced the runway in crop top numbers, pleated airy dresses with diamond cutouts, and fun striped dresses.

From there you choose what metal you want (yellow, white gold or platinum), the diamond size and quality, and, if applicable, the size of the piece.