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The stone's unique apple green color is due to natural exposure to radioactive materials, as the irradiation of diamonds can produce changes in color. The Dresden Green Diamond has been used to compare natural versus lab-produced green diamonds — it is hoped that it can be used to devise a test to differentiate between naturally green diamonds, which are quite rare, and lab-produced ones.
The Green Vault (German: Grünes Gewölbe; pronounced [ˈɡʁyːnəs ɡəˈʋœlbə]) is a museum located in Dresden, Germany, which contains the largest treasure collection in Europe. [1] The museum was founded in 1723 by Augustus the Strong of Poland and Saxony , and features a variety of exhibits in styles from Baroque to Classicism .
On 25 November 2019, royal jewellery was stolen from the Green Vault museum within Dresden Castle in Dresden, Saxony, Germany.The stolen items included the 49-carat Dresden White Diamond, the diamond-laden breast star of the Polish Order of the White Eagle which belonged to the King of Poland, a hat clasp with a 16-carat diamond, a diamond epaulette, and a diamond-studded hilt containing nine ...
Only the crown jewel of the collection, the Dresden Green Diamond, was missed. Considered one of the purest diamonds ever discovered, an internally flawless 41 carats’ worth, it was reportedly ...
The weight of a diamond is one of these variables that determines a diamond’s worth and is what the general public is most familiar with. The unit of measurement, called the carat, equals 200 ...
This category is for articles about individual green diamonds. ... Dresden Green Diamond This page was last edited on 22 August 2018, at 18:06 (UTC). ...
The diamond is named after its first owner, but it was probably styled the "English Dresden" to distinguish it from a number of other famous diamonds with the same name: the Dresden Green, the Dresden White and the Dresden Yellow, which were kept in the German city of Dresden. It is also known as the "Dresden Drop" or the "Star of Dresden".
Some irradiated diamonds are completely natural; one famous example is the Dresden Green Diamond. [11] In these natural stones the color is imparted by "radiation burns" (natural irradiation by alpha particles originating from uranium ore) in the form of small patches, usually only micrometers deep. Additionally, Type IIa diamonds can have ...