HOPEDIAMOND

Hope Diamond

The Hope Diamond, also known as "Le Bijou du Roi", "Le bleu de France", and the Tavernier Blue, is a large,,[[#References|1]] deep-blue diamond, now housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. It is blue to the naked eye because of trace amounts of boron within its crystal structure, and exhibits red phosphorescence after exposure to ultraviolet light. It is classified as a Type IIb diamond, and is notorious for supposedly being cursed. It has a long recorded history, with few gaps, in which it changed hands numerous times on its way from ...

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