Why diamonds are forever ?
Diamonds are forever. This is a phrase that has been use for long by everyone under the sky. Little do people understand what lies beneath the catchy phrase which is in vogue and in use especially by the jewellery manufacturers in their advertisements, be it on billboards, signboards, print or electronic media. Super models are being hired to make this as a popular accessory and jewellery. In Jewellery items Engagement Rings are favorite among diamond lovers.
Let us dig deeper into the phrase and try to understand the real meaning of the phrase which is being used by everyone. Let us also understand why the word forever is being used for diamonds only and not for other precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum or titanium. To understand this one shall have to wind the clock back and remember our senior school days. One would wonder how will it help the cause, but for the time being let’s just do that. If we recollect the geography or science lectures or refer to the course books we would be startled to find the facts which we already knew but had forgot to introspect to understand the real meaning of it.
Now the text books would tell us facts which are as follows. We all know what carbon is. It is an element which is part of periodic table and a very vital constituent of life on our planet and perhaps in the universe. We cannot imagine life without this element. The easiest example is coal which is a metamorphic form of trees. It would be hard to believe for the people who till now did not have access to this information that it is the same jet black carbon which make diamonds. Now, many of us would recollect what they studied in schools. It was hard to believe then also for many of us as of how can a black element be converted into sparkling thing which is the most shining and dazzling objet ever found on this plant so far, radiance of which increases if cut and polished to certain shapes and angles.
Scientifically speaking, at very high temperature carbon is converted into diamonds. Now, another very important fact about the diamonds is that it is the hardest natural material found on the earth. Here hardness would mean resistance to wear and tear. Can you imagine and accept the fact that the best drill bits and tools used to make large drills in rocks and stones are made of diamond. Diamond wheels are used for polishing. In fact, diamond polishing is a huge exercise in itself. Very small a diamond may be, but the time and energy which is required to be spent to polish the diamond to the desired shape and size is phenomenal compared to the size of diamonds.
It seems now the facts seem to be crystallizing into the theme that we started this article with. We said that diamonds are forever. Now given the properties of diamond, it is very very hard to get damaged or loose its shape and radiance and is not affected by any chemical or acid available naturally and even by the ones which are engineered chemically. Due to these properties its shape, size and radiance remain unchanged with passage of time. Now, you would say with whole lot of conviction that diamonds are forever.
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Why diamonds are forever ?
Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey DBE (born 8 January 1937, Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh singer. She performed the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). She is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song. Bassey is an international artist who has accumulated 20 silver discs for sales in Britain, Europe and the Middle East; fifty-plus gold discs for international record sales; and countless greatest-hits collections including one gold and two platinum. Her Top 10 albums include Shirley; Something; Something Else; Never, Never, Never and 2007′s Get the Party Started. Bassey was born on 8 January 1937 at 182 Bute Street, Tiger Bay, Cardiff, to a Efik Nigerian sailor father and a mother from Yorkshire, who divorced when she was three. She grew up in the working-class dockside district of Tiger Bay as the youngest of seven children. After leaving Moorland School at the age of fifteen, Bassey first found employment packing at a local factory while singing in local pubs and clubs in the evenings and weekends. In 1953, she signed up for the revue Memories of Jolson, a musical based on the life of Al Jolson….. Bassey’s first marriage was to Kenneth Hume (from 1961 to 1965) and ended in divorce. Her second husband was Sergio Novak. Bassey and Novak were married from 1968 until they divorced in 1977; Novak served as Bassey’s manager for this period of time. Bassey has two daughters and one …
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