It's wild that we even chose diamonds as something sooo special like... it looks identical to quartz. Actually identical. You cut and polish a good hunk of quartz and it looks exactly like a diamond, you can even have multiple colors just like diamonds. It doesn't even look special what is the POINT (unless you need it for the hardness and if you're doing that you're not buying jewelry).
Now, I'm not saying diamonds aren't cool, as a geology nerd they are in fact pretty awesome, but like... visually you can get goddamn near any other mineral to look the same as a diamond.
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u/FlowerFaerie13 13h ago
It's wild that we even chose diamonds as something sooo special like... it looks identical to quartz. Actually identical. You cut and polish a good hunk of quartz and it looks exactly like a diamond, you can even have multiple colors just like diamonds. It doesn't even look special what is the POINT (unless you need it for the hardness and if you're doing that you're not buying jewelry).
Now, I'm not saying diamonds aren't cool, as a geology nerd they are in fact pretty awesome, but like... visually you can get goddamn near any other mineral to look the same as a diamond.