Sentences with phrase «larger than diamonds»

That's at least 100 times larger than the nanodiamonds that form when planetary objects collide, and it's far larger than diamonds that form by condensing from carbon vapor inside clouds of interplanetary gas and dust.

Not exact matches

The government of Singapore, for instance, is focusing on much larger initiatives than diamonds: global trade.

The Type - IIa stone, just smaller than a tennis ball, is the largest diamond discovery for more than 100 years, according to Vancouver - based Lucara.

A man in Sierra Leone found one of the largest diamonds there in more than 40 years and gave it to the country's president.

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.

The nature of the inclusions in these large diamonds also explains why diamond exploration and mining mostly uncovers common varieties of diamonds rather than rare large ones.

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.

Based on this recent analysis, it appears that these large gem diamonds form in a completely different part of the mantle than most common diamonds.

Shortly after gaining its independence from Britain in 1966, large diamond reserves were discovered, and the economy has since grown faster — and for longer — than that of virtually any other nation in the world.

The sensor itself is just slightly larger than a nitrogen atom, with a synthetic diamond to act as a substrate.

Washington, DC — The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has issued a patent to the Carnegie Institution for a method of creating high quality diamond crystals larger than 10 carats.

Hexagonal diamond or lonsdaleite is harder than the type of diamond typically worn on an engagement ring and is thought to be naturally made when large, graphite - bearing meteorites slam into Earth.

Because of their shape, marquise - cut diamonds often appear larger than life.

The center diamond is larger than the side diamonds and is set with a shared prong.

External stylistic changes amount to little more than an altered front bumper boasting greater structure and larger air ducts, a subtly reshaped grille with a so - called diamond pattern plastic insert and revised headlamps that now come as standard with LED operation for both the low and high beam as well as the daytime running lamps.

External stylistic changes amount to little more than an altered front bumper boasting greater structure and larger air ducts, a subtly reshaped grille with a diamond pattern plastic insert and revised headlamps that now come as standard with LED operation for both the low and high beam as well as the day - time running lamps.

Hence the AVANTGARDE line features a front bumper with a sporty design, which looks wider and more athletic than that of the ELEGANCE line on account of the large lower air intake boasting a black painted grille with diamond - shaped perforations typical of a sports car.

Diamonds, Danger, and A Deadly Secret... A Katerina Carter Legal ThrillerOut of work and running out of money, Private Investigator and Fraud Expert, Katerina Carter, desperately needs more clients or she'll be forced to go crawling back to a cubicle at her previous firm, a fate worse than debt.So when Liberty Diamond Mines CEO Susan Sullivan hires Kat to find Liberty's missing CFO and a large sum of embezzled money, she's eager to accept the job.

In a Diamond Pixel display, there are twice as many green subpixels as there are blue and red ones, and the green subpixels are oval and small while the red and blue ones are diamond - shaped and larger (the blue subpixel is slightly larger than the red one).

Go up to G and VS1 if the diamond is larger than 1 carat.

They look larger than round diamonds and also make a woman's finger seem longer and more slender.

Generally, for pave - and channel - set rings, it's recommended that the diamond accents are no larger than 15 % of the main stone.

Because yellow diamonds are the most common type of naturally colored diamond, a yellow diamond will cost less than a pink or purple diamond, although the ultimate cost depends in large part on the color intensity of the diamond.

The scenes, most easily viewed from across the room, are of something like an Edenic carnival: portraits rendered in gray scale of larger - than - life women against a tropical backdrop, all printed under the same watermarked pattern of the diamond - arrayed, shiny, chain - link fence that rings the room.

Chain link fences should have only small openings — no part of the diamond shaped openings should be larger than 1 3/4 inches.