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Diamond (colourless-near colourless)

The colourless diamond of the D-to-Z scale is the archetypal gem — Mohs 10, singly refractive 2.417, and dispersed into fire like nothing natural except its simulants' exaggerations.

Colour
colourless to white

Transparency
Transparent

RI
2.417

SG
3.51–3.53

Mohs
10.0

Birthstone
April

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