Carbonado Carbonado Carbonado, commonly known as the "black diamond", is the toughest form of natural diamond. It is an impure form of polycrystalline diamond consisting of diamond, graphite, and amorphous carbon. It is found primarily in alluvial deposits in the Central African Republic and in Brazil. Its natural colour is black or dark grey, and it is more porous than other diamonds. Carbonado diamonds are typically pea-sized or larger porous aggregates of many tiny black crystals. The most characteristic carbonados have been found only in the Central African Republic and in Brazil, in neither place associated with kimberlite, the source of
What Fresh Hell Is This? What Fresh Hell Is This? What Fresh Hell is This? is the fourth studio album by Art Bergmann, released in 1995 on Epic Records. The album gets its name from a quotation by American wit Dorothy Parker. The album was written primarily while Bergmann was in rehab, recovering from his prior battles with drug addiction. In its year end poll of its newspapers' music critics, Southam Newspapers named the album as one of the ten best albums of 1995, with "London Free Press" critic Ian Gillespie lauding Bergmann as "a Canadian rock genius, doomed to hover around the edges of