What is "carats"

Usage examples of "carats".

It would not allow a stone over four carats to pass through, and it screened out fixed percentages of the smaller stones - allowing only a proportion of the smaller and less valuable diamonds to proceed through into the main X-ray room.

The Great Star of Africa at 530 carats and The Cullinan II at 317 carats.

I tell you with absolute certainty there are millions of carats of diamonds lying in the crotch of Thunderbolt and Suicide.

The smallest of these stones weighed fourteen carats, the largest a formidable fifty-six carats.

Two perfect diamonds of ten or twelve carats each, and perhaps five smaller ones.

The Jubilee Diamond, a superb 245-carat cushion of unearthly fire fashioned out of 650-carat rough - then the biggest of them all, a monstrous rough stone of 3,106 carats, the Cullinan which yielded not one, but two paragons.

Each time the reply had been consistent - not a single stone over four carats, and a very precious few of any others.

The computer ended by giving the grand total of carats recovered, and Johnny spoke for the first time.

They would have been appalled to know that modern cutters reduced the bulk of that stone from over seven hundred carats to a hundred and six.

The central diamond was round, multifaceted, and very large, at least twenty carats, and it was surrounded by smaller stones which were equally as lovely and superbly cut, and these formed a circle at the base of the mounting.