The diamond Cognac is a variety of brown diamond of color.
Its color is caused by a plastic deformation. It is a deformation in the crystalline structure of the diamond that appears in the form of disturbance in the alignment of the atoms of carbon and which gives a form "waved" in the structure instead of right.
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See the article on the Diamant