Fire or Dispersion in Diamonds

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Fire or Dispersion in Diamonds

Fire or Dispersion in Diamonds
Fire is the common name for the effect caused by dispersion. The flashes of coloured light (fire) emanating from diamonds are caused by white light being split up by the optical properties of the diamond.
There is a more technical explanation of dispersion on our dispersion page.

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