The largest diamond found in more than a century has been unearthed at a mine in Botswana, and the country’s president showed off the fist-sized stone to the world at a viewing ceremony Thursday.

The Botswana government says the huge 2,492-carat diamond is the second-biggest ever discovered in a mine. It’s the biggest diamond found since 1905.

  • @[email protected]
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    3426 days ago

    I just want to know what genius named carats and karats ostensibly the same thing, especially when both are related to jewellery, but one means purity and the other is just a measure of weight

    • @ayyy
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      2726 days ago

      It’s intentional to sow confusion. That way you just defer to the nice, good-looking sales person at your local jewelry store to tell you what is valuable and don’t question the cartel pricing and artificial scarcity.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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        25 days ago

        Reminds me of how those malls would have two or three jewelry stores in the middle, right across from each other, and they were all owned by the same company!

      • @kboy101222
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        1426 days ago

        Isn’t that some American BS? Every non American food I’ve had was measured in Kilocalories