Why do diamond sparkles?

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Solution

The brilliance of the diamond and cut glass piece is also due to total internal reflection.
Since the refractive in of diamond is large, the critical angle is quite small $24 °$ .
The surface of the Diamond meets each other at an angle that light entering the diamond gets totally refracted a number of times before refracting outside.
It causes the sparkling of a diamond.

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