The Aurora Diamond Collection is the most comprehensive collection of naturally colored diamonds in the world, consisting of all the multifarious colors in which diamonds exist in nature, represented in different shapes, sizes, color saturations, as well as modified colors. There are 296 diamonds in the collection weighing a total of 267.45 carats, put together over a period of almost 25 years by New York diamond collectors Alan Bronstein and Harry Rodman. The name Aurora selected for this diamond collection seem to have been inspired by the spectacular natural phenomenon occurring at high altitudes in the upper layers of the atmosphere over the earth's magnetic poles, known as Aurora Borealis (northern lights) and Aurora Australis (southern lights). The spectacular multicolored display of the Aurora is believed to be caused by charged particles from the solar wind being captured by the magnetic field of the earth and conducted towards the magnetic poles, where they collide with oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere, knocking away some of their electrons, forming ions in excited states. The ions emit radiation in various wave lengths creating the characteristic colors of the Aurora, such as red, green and blue.
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