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New Year's Message from BucksMont Tae Kwon Do
I learned something new this morning about what makes diamonds so valuable. The numbers are mind-blowing.
Start with a basic ingredient: carbon. Not so rare. It is the building block of all life. In fact, we are about 18% carbon.
Travel underground between 83 and 155 miles. You are getting warmer. About 2200 degrees Fahrenheit.
Apply about 725,000 pounds of pressure per square inch.
Wait about 3 billion years. (So that ring on your finger started out before people existed). What we see is a shiny (and expensive) rock. What is not so obvious is what it had to go through to get here. That's the value. I tell you this because we all live in a world where we ....