And most of all it is not having the only man you could love, whether he drives a bread truck or delivers the mail or checks the berry crates down at the sheds, or owns seventeen oil wells and six diamond mines, for if you are anybody what he is or does makes no difference if he is the one.

The birthstone of April is the diamond, and the birth flower is typically listed as either the Daisy or the Sweet Pea.

* April's birthstone is the diamond, which symbolizes innocence.

Designed by famous yacht designer L. Francis Herreshoff, this is essentially the same pattern as an admiralty anchor, albeit with small diamond shaped flukes or palms.

For substances which have two ( or more ) stable crystalline forms, such as diamond and graphite for carbon, there is a kind of " chemical degeneracy ".

He also introduced the possibility of allotropy in chemical elements when he discovered that diamond is a crystalline form of carbon.

In Western Australia the Argyle diamond mine in the Kimberley ( Western Australia ) is the world's biggest producer of natural diamonds and contributes approximately one-third of the world's natural supply.

The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a 90-foot diamond.

For example, diamond is highly transparent, while graphite is opaque and black.

Gem quality diamond is used in jewelry, and Industrial diamonds are used in drilling, cutting and polishing tools for machining metals and stone.

In addition to mined diamonds, synthetic diamonds found industrial applications almost immediately after their invention in the 1950s ; another 3 billion carats ( 600 tonnes ) of synthetic diamond is produced annually for industrial use.

The dominant industrial use of diamond is in cutting, drilling, grinding, and polishing.

Garnering much excitement is the possible use of diamond as a semiconductor suitable to build microchips from, or the use of diamond as a heat sink in electronics.

For example, carbon can be found as diamond, which has a tetrahedral structure around each carbon atom ; graphite, which has layers of carbon atoms with a hexagonal structure stacked on top of each other ; graphene, which is a single layer of graphite that is incredibly strong ; fullerenes, which have nearly spherical shapes ; and carbon nanotubes, which are tubes with a hexagonal structure ( even these may differ from each other in electrical properties ).

This mine is a kimberlite pipe, rich in diamonds, and the reducing environment helped produce both elemental chromium and diamond.

For example, diamond and graphite are two crystalline forms of carbon, while amorphous carbon is a noncrystalline form.

For example, diamond is among the hardest substances known, while graphite is so soft that it is used as a lubricant.

" However, Freitas and Merkle argue that a focused effort to achieve diamond mechanosynthesis ( DMS ) can begin now, using existing technology, and might achieve success in less than a decade if their " direct-to-DMS approach is pursued rather than a more circuitous development approach that seeks to implement less efficacious nondiamondoid molecular manufacturing technologies before progressing to diamondoid ".

Shortly after the start of the 1908 diamond rush in German South-West Africa, now known as Namibia, the German imperial government claimed sole mining rights by creating the Sperrgebiet ( forbidden zone ), effectively criminalizing new settlement.

The Hope Diamond, also known as " Le bleu de France " or " Le Bijou du Roi ", is a large,, deep-blue diamond, now housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D. C.

Since the word diamond is now used for the hardest gemstone, the increasingly archaic term " adamant " has a mostly poetic or figurative use.

Trepanation instruments are now available with diamond coated rims ( Diamond Bone Cutting System ), which are less traumatic than the classical trephines with sharp teeth.

Apart from gold, diamond deposits were also found in 1729 around the village of Tijuco, now Diamantina.

This previously bustling diamond town is now abandoned, and fights a constant struggle against being buried under the shifting sand dunes of the Namib desert.

Rhodes was born in 1853 and was the effective founder of the state of Rhodesia ( now Zambia and Zimbabwe ), De Beers diamond company and the Rhodes Scholarship.

It is most famous for being London ’ s jewellery quarter and centre of the UK diamond trade, but the area is also now home to a diverse range of media and creative businesses.

Another prize, the Koh-I-nur diamond ( Humayun ’ s diamond ) now passed into Persian hands.

The surrounding parklands include ( aside from a large lake, now filled with water, but once used as a quarry ) a baseball diamond, a football oval and cricket pitches.

Encompassing only a small fraction of what is now the amusement park, there were no rides, simply camping and picnic areas, a small baseball diamond, a skatepark, and other things you might find in a typical town or village park.

This bridge now features a welcome sign for the historic ' black diamond ' district.

With the money received for his famous diamond, he now began to consolidate his properties.

For example in the United Kingdom, diamond was a well known symbol for the 75th anniversary, but this changed to the now more common 60th anniversary after Queen Victoria's 60 years on the throne was widely marked as her Diamond Jubilee.

The non-unison elements of the 5-limit tonality diamond, 3 / 2, 5 / 4, 5 / 3, 4 / 3, 8 / 5, 6 / 5 are now arranged in a regular hexagon around 1.

* Radial keratotomy ( RK ), developed by Russian ophtalmologist Svyatoslav Fyodorov in 1974, uses spoke-shaped incisions, always made with a diamond knife, to alter the shape of the cornea and reduce myopia or astigmatism ; this technique is now usually replaced by other methods ( that use excimer laser ).

In 1931 she sent her son Mike to live with family and went to Europe, paying for the trip by selling a diamond bracelet that her now ex-husband had given her on the occasion of Mike's birth.

The temporary solution was that Woolf ( Babe ) Barnato, of the " Bentley Boys ", heir to Kimberley diamond magnate Barney Barnato purchased all the business assets and they continued much as before with Barnato chairman but W O was now Barnato's employee.

If this reveals a 3-0 trump split, he now ruffs another diamond in dummy.

Boycie and his associate, Abdul, put money forward for a diamond exchange ; Slater, now a Detective Chief Inspector, is investigating the case and knows who is supplying the diamonds as well as who is putting the money up, however does not know who the courier is.

The Royal Wessex Yeomanry TRF is taken from the 74th ( Yeomanry ) Division, whose insignia was a broken spur in a black diamond during World War I, used to signify that the division was once a mounted division and now served as infantry.

However, we now know that a diamond's appearance is composed of many light paths that reflect considerably more than two times within that diamond.

The diamond is currently set into the Crown of Queen Elizabeth and on display at the Tower of London.

After Queen Victoria's death it was set in Queen Alexandra's brand-new diamond crown, with which she was crowned at the coronation of her husband, King Edward VII.

The creative but outdated ball-in-glove logo was removed and replaced with a stylized interlocking " M " and " B " set on a pair of crossed bats and a diamond background.

A set A of real numbers ( blue balls ), a set of upper bounds of A ( red diamond and balls ), and the smallest such upper bound, that is, the supremum of A ( red diamond ).

Image: Ruby and diamond bracelet. jpg | Rubies set in jewelry

Elizabeth's crown was made of platinum and was set with the Koh-i-Noor diamond.

Bruting is the process whereby two diamonds are set onto spinning axles turning in opposite directions, which are then set to grind against each other to shape each diamond into a round shape.

Windows may be set in a diamond shaped lattice.

Galadriel's Elven Ring, Nenya is made of Mithril and is set with a stone of ' adamant ' ( probably diamond ).

Its original Golden Fleece ornament can be seen today in the Treasury of the Residenz Palace in Munich, a blue glass replica of the Wittelsbach in place of where the diamond was set.

In entity relationship diagrams a weak entity set is indicated by a bold ( or double-lined ) rectangle ( the entity ) connected by a bold ( or double-lined ) type arrow to a bold ( or double-lined ) diamond ( the relationship ).

While the girls are robbing the diamond depository they accidentally set off the alarm, prompting them to break the glass and steal the diamonds.

A normal set would comprise around three half diamond picks and a double half diamond pick.

This new body set out to draft a new process, whereby all diamond rough could be certified as coming from a non-conflict source.

One set of 27 diamond stars was kept in the Imperial family ; they are seen in a photograph that shows the dowry of Rudolf's daughter, the Archduchess Elisabeth, known as " Erzsi ", on the occasion of her wedding to Otto Prince Windisch-Graetz in 1902.

The obverse and reverse, as well as the rim, are drawn full size, and moreover the morse with the precious stones set therein, including a diamond then considered the second largest in the world, is fully described.

It was thought that after this first meeting the King sent Deslys a pearl necklace worth $ 70, 000: more gifts soon followed, including a diamond necklace with black and white pearl drops set in a platinum band.

* Stonesetting, in jewelry, when a diamond or gem is set into a frame or bed

In the Worcestershire Leagues there is no set measurement for this, instead the size of the diamond should be ' not less than 3 ft 10in and no greater than 4 ft 2in '.