Why are diamonds so rare and valuable?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Lots of people love sparkly, pretty things – especially precious stones, like diamonds. But who decides which stones are precious? And what makes diamonds so special? We asked geologist Marc M. Hirschmann to help us find the answer. Got a priceless question? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll help find a jewel of an answer! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is The Moment of Um.
0:08.8	Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios.
0:15.0	I'm Chauncey Fitzwilliams, the third.
0:19.3	Um.
0:19.9	Um.
0:21.6	Um. Williams, the third. Um... I specialize in collecting extremely rare and precious objects.
0:32.0	The lost stone tablets of Gibraltar?
0:35.5	They're not lost.
0:37.2	They're on display in my guest bathroom.
0:40.8	How about former president Richard Nixon's gold-plated toothbrush?
0:45.5	That keeps my chopper sparkly clean every day.
0:50.2	But the most precious object in my collection is...
0:55.0	Hold on, instead of just telling you, how about I show you?
1:01.0	I just have to enter the super secret code...
1:06.0	Whisper the super secret password.
1:09.0	Chauncey Fitzwilliams, one, two, three.
1:13.6	Squeeze this rubber ducky twice,
1:16.6	and then open up this hidden door behind the bookcase.
1:21.6	Ah, there it is.
1:23.6	The alabaster dove diamond.
1:28.3	It's literally worth
1:29.7	10 gazillion billion dollars.
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