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Carbonado, commonly known as black diamond, is one of the toughest forms of natural diamond. It is an impure, high-density, micro-porous form of polycrystalline diamond consisting of diamond, graphite , and amorphous carbon , with minor crystalline precipitates filling pores and occasional reduced metal inclusions. [ 1 ]
Black Diamond Equipment's history dates from the late 1950s, when climber Yvon Chouinard began hand-forging pitons and selling them from the trunk of his car in Yosemite Valley. Chouinard's pitons quickly gained a reputation for quality, and Chouinard Equipment Ltd. was born soon after in Ventura, California .
The Black Diamond, a 1921 British novel by Francis Brett Young; Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues, a 1994 book by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack; Black Diamonds: The Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame, a 1996 book, incorporating the first round of the Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame project
Both the Black Diamond apple and the Arkansas Black apple have otherworldly purple-black skin. But one type is much easier to find than the other. The post Black Diamond Apples Cost at Least $7 ...
Black Diamond is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 4,697 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] In 2023, with a 40.6% growth rate, [ 5 ] Black Diamond was the fastest growing small city in King County.
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The Korloff Noir is one of the world's largest known black diamonds. It is an 88-carat diamond, with 57 edges. Before it was cut and polished, it had 421 carats. It is named for the Korloff -Sapojnikoff family, members of the Russian nobility, who once owned it. In 1978, Daniel Paillasseur, a French jeweller, purchased it. [1]
Schuylkill Mall was an 800,000 sq ft (74,000 m 2) shopping mall located in Frackville, Pennsylvania.Built in 1980 by Crown American, the mall originally featured Kmart, Hess's, and Sears as its anchor stores; later additions to the mall included Pomeroy's (which was later bought out by The Bon-Ton) and Phar-Mor.