Diamonds are embedded in drill tips or saw blades, or ground into a powder for use in grinding and polishing applications.

Diamonds are the only of these mineral resources currently being developed ; reported sales of largely uncut diamonds make up close to 60 % of the CAR's export earnings.

Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

Diamonds are brought close to the Earth ′ s surface through deep volcanic eruptions by a magma, which cools into igneous rocks known as kimberlites and lamproites.

Diamonds are thought to have been first recognized and mined in India, where significant alluvial deposits of the stone could be found many centuries ago along the rivers Penner, Krishna and Godavari.

Diamonds and gold also are mined and exported on a large scale, providing additional foreign exchange.

Diamonds are meant to sparkle, to break down light into its constituent rainbow colors ( dispersion ), chop it up into bright little pieces ( scintillation ), and deliver it to the eye ( brilliance ).

Diamonds are produced in Leteng, Mothae, Liqhobong and Kao mines.

Smuggling in literature is a common theme, from Bizet's Carmen to the James Bond books ( and later films ) Diamonds are Forever and Goldfinger.

Smuggling is a common trope or theme in literature and can be found in a wide range of works – from the 18th century novels of Charlotte Turner Smith to Prosper Mérimée's 19th century novella, Carmen ( the inspiration for numerous films as well as Bizet's opera, Carmen ) to the James Bond novel ( and later film ) Diamonds are Forever.

* The first two pages of Ian Fleming's novel Diamonds Are Forever are told from the point of view of an African scorpion which kills and eats a beetle and is then casually crushed and killed itself, by one of the villains whom James Bond would later confront and eventually crush.

Diamonds are graded using criteria that have become known as the four Cs, namely color, cut, clarity and carat weight.

After Diamonds are Forever was published in 1956 Fleming received a letter from Bond enthusiast and gun expert Geoffrey Boothroyd, criticising his choice of firearm for Bond.

* Diamonds are Forever ( film ) the seventh official James Bond film starring Sean Connery

Diamonds in general, including the Hope Diamond, are considered to be the hardest natural mineral on the Earth, but because of diamond's crystalline structure, there are weak planes in the bonds which permit jewelers to slice a diamond and, in so doing, to cause it to sparkle by refracting light in different ways.

Additionally, there are R & D institutes including GAZPROM R & D Institute ( Branch of Moscow-based Institute ), Irkutsk Institute of Rare and Precious Metals and Diamonds.

* Likenesses of Astaire and Rogers, apparently painted over from the Cheek to Cheek dance in Top Hat, are in the " Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds " section of The Beatles film Yellow Submarine ( 1968 ).

After Diamonds are Forever had been published, Fleming received a letter from a thirty-one-year-old Bond enthusiast and gun expert, Geoffrey Boothroyd, criticising the author's choice of firearm for Bond: his suggestions came too late to be included in From Russia, with Love, but one of Boothroyd's guns – a. 38 Smith & Wesson snub-nosed revolver modified with one third of the trigger guard removed – was used as the model for Chopping's image.

This requires that the number of cards in play is divisible by the number of players, so before any hands are dealt, the pack ( s ) is inspected and the appropriate number of innocuous cards of trivial denomination ( low Diamonds / Clubs ) are extracted and discarded.

Blofeld in You Only Live Twice ( Donald Pleasence ), On Her Majesty ’ s Secret Service ( Telly Savalas ), Diamonds are Forever ( Charles Gray ) and Never Say Never Again ( Max Von Sydow ).

In the third, fourth, and fifth appearancesYou Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty ’ s Secret Service and Diamonds are Foreverhe is the primary antagonist, meeting Bond face-to-face.

The Bethalto Khoury League Diamonds are located on the south side of town in the Chateaux residential area.

Diamonds with higher clarity grades are more valued, with the exceedingly rare Flawless graded diamond fetching the highest price.

Diamonds in the normal color range are graded loose, ( for example F-G )

* Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 ): Nevada and Las Vegas locations ; Austin climbing through the window into Alotta Fagina's apartment modelled on how Bond enters Blofeld's apartment ; double entendres by Austin and Vanessa modelled after those made by the two homosexual hitmen ( i. e. " moving ", " heartwarming " in the original film ); No. 2 using a model of the US for explaining the enterprise ; final attack on Austin at the hotel modelled on similar final sequence on the Queen Elisabeth.

Examples range from highly stylised, even avant-garde, literary adaptions using historical themes ( e. g. Jan Němec's Diamonds of the Night ( Démanty noci )) to semi-improvised comedies with contemporary subjects and amateur actors ( e. g., Miloš Forman's The Firemen's Ball ( Hoří, má panenko )).

The first, " Luces in the Sky with Diamonds ," presented a design for a gossamer, iso-inertial SPS using thin films of artificial diamond in thermionic conversion devices.

In 2001, Dunbar recalled that The Mighty Diamonds ' song " Right Time " was particularly tricky, evoking both skepticism and imitation: " When that tune first come out, because of that double tap on the rim nobody believe it was me on the drums, they thought it was some sort of sound effect we was using.

Yester, Belland, and Somerville continued performing as a trio, using their last names, doing songs that were associated with The Four Preps, The Diamonds, and The Association.

Ties ( cards of the same rank ) are broken by suit, using the same bridge ( ascending alphabetical ) order of the suits: Spades are highest, followed by Hearts, Diamonds, and Clubs.

* In the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever, Bond is seen gaining entry to the Whyte laboratory with a then-state-of-the-art card-access lock system by " tailgating ".

During his time in Spain he developed early gasoline and oil bombs, suggested the quartering of personnel on trains to aid in relocation, and following the Nationalist victory was awarded the Spanish Cross in Gold with Swords and Diamonds for his contributions.

Under their guidance, Hartmann steadily developed his tactics, which earned him the coveted Ritterkreuz mit Eichenlaub, Schwertern und Brillanten ( Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds ) on 25 August 1944 for claiming 301 aerial victories.

In 2008, a portion of land in the northeast corner of the city centre region has been developed into a series of small box stores: Boston Pizza, Panera Bread, Running Room, Spence Diamonds, and the LCBO.

Electra Heart is the concept album by UK singer Marina And The Diamonds.

Graduating from Christ Church, Oxford, as a Westminster scholar in 1860, he was entered at Lincoln's Inn but gave his attention chiefly to drama, producing Diamonds and Hearts at the Haymarket Theatre in 1867 ; this was followed by other light comedies.

" As members of the group came and went, the direction of the music continued to be inspired by the Surrealists, and the group came to be called by the surreal-sounding name of Tangerine Dream, inspired by the line " tangerine trees and marmalade skies " from The Beatles ' track " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

Rider is one of three women in the Bond canon who have been scarred by rape ( Tiffany Case in Diamonds Are Forever and Pussy Galore in Goldfinger being the others ).

The Dr. No comic strip was reprinted in 2005 by Titan Books as part of the Dr. No anthology that also includes Diamonds Are Forever and From Russia, with Love.

The From Russia, with Love comic strip was reprinted in 2005 by Titan Books in the Dr. No anthology, which also included Diamonds Are Forever and Casino Royale.

* " Hollywood "( Marina and the Diamonds song ), a song by Marina and the Diamonds for her 2010 debut album The Family Jewels

Following Diamonds Are Forever, SPECTRE and Blofeld were retired from the Eon Films series, except for a cameo by Blofeld ( not identified by name, but accompanied by the character's trademark cat ) in For Your Eyes Only.

* Mr. Wint & Mr. Kidd ( Diamonds Are Forever ) – Mr. Wint is killed by James Bond by tying his " bomb surprise " to his coat tails and tossing him overboard, exploding before he hits the water.

* Bert Saxby ( Diamonds Are Forever ) – killed by CIA Agents.

One of the best-known examples is Madonna's 1985 video for " Material Girl " ( directed by Mary Lambert ) which was closely modelled on Jack Cole's staging of " Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend " from the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

" Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds " is a song written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon – McCartney, for The Beatles ' 1967 album Sgt.

The first recording by the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra was made in 1914 and occasional records were issued during Godfrey's tenure: Godfrey's recordings included works such as Ferdinand Hérold's overture to Zampa, Daniel Auber's overtures The Bronze Horse and The Crown Diamonds, or Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Petite Suite de Concert, along with " novelty items " with titles such as ' Slippery Sticks ' and ' Whispering Pines ' by members of the orchestra and featuring them as soloists.