Editing Hope Diamond (section)

===Geological beginnings===
The Hope Diamond was formed deep within the [[Earth]] approximately 1.1 [[billion]] years ago. Like all [[diamond]]s, it was formed when [[carbon]] atoms formed strong bonds with each other. The Hope Diamond was originally embedded in [[kimberlite]] and was later extracted and refined to form the current gem. The Hope Diamond contains trace amounts of boron atoms intermixed with the carbon structure, which results in the rare blue color of the diamond.<ref name="twsI44oox">{{Cite news |date=July 9, 2011 |title=The Hope Diamond in Full Color |publisher=Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History |url=http://www.mnh.si.edu/earth/text/2_1_1_2.html |url-status=dead |access-date=July 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525121643/http://www.mnh.si.edu/earth/text/2_1_1_2.html |archive-date=May 25, 2011 |quote=Why Is It Blue? Light interacts with an impurity in the diamond to produce the unusual color. As the diamond grew, a few atoms of the element boron entered the crystal structure. The addition of just one boron atom for every million carbon atoms is enough to cause the deep blue color. Blue diamonds are extremely rare. Only about one in 100,000 diamonds is strongly colored, and blue is one of the rarest colors.}}</ref>

{{blockquote|People typically think of the Hope Diamond as a historic gem, but... it's [important] as a rare scientific specimen that can provide vital insights into our knowledge of diamonds and how they are formed in the earth.|Jeffrey Post, Smithsonian curator, 2008<ref name=twsI44hh/>}}