18K yellow gold pendant adorned with a round brilliant diamond

Yellow gold : Yellow 18K gold is an alloy contianing 75% of pure gold, whereas 14K gold contains only 58,5% of pure gold.
Brilliant cut : The modern brilliant cut was developed by Marcel Tolkowsky in 1919. It consists of 58 facets (or 57 if the culet is excluded). It is the most popular modern cut because it provides maximized light return through the top of the diamond.
Color : White diamonds color range from D (colorless, the purest white) to Z (light color). D, E and F are colorless diamonds, G, H , I and J are near colorless , K and L are faint color, M to Z have a light color.
Diamond : In mineralogy, diamond is an extremely rare, precious and hard (named after the ancient Greek "unbreakable") metastable allotrope of carbon, where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice.