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Diamonds are glittering and attractive because light incident on them undergoes –

A. highest refraction
B. multiple internal reflections
C. multiple surface reflections
D. hundred percent transmission
Answer» B. multiple internal reflections
Explanation: Diamond has remarkable optical characteristics. Because of its extremely rigid lattice, it can be contaminated by very few types of impurities, such as boron and nitrogen. Combined with wide transparency', this resultsin the clear, colourless appearance of most natural diamonds. Small amounts of defects or impurities (about one per million of lattice atoms) colour diamond blue (boron), yellow (nitrogen), brown (lattice defects), green (radiation exposure), purple, pink, orange or red.
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