Corundum sapphire crystal elements are all made from the highest grade, most precious metals. This earringss is very light, and the colors are very beautiful. Meanwhile, the combination of color and corundum is rich in a variety of natural stones.

The combination of corundum and sapphire, all of these natural stones are unique and their size will be slightly different. In the meantime, earrings is an ideal choice in jewelry making. Corundum, the beads are clear in color, not easy to make them dirty. Corundum sapphires are clear in color, brilliant and sparkle. This is an opaque hexagomal crystal of corundum.Corundum sapphire is a good light for the jewelry design and diy project. Natural sapphire (also opaque and poor colour).

This crystals is opaque and has poor colour (good quality crystals of sapphires would also be expensive). You can just see a paler line or two across it.īlue corundum is Sapphire. These two crystals are opaque and have poor colour (good quality crystals of ruby would be extremely expensive). Some rubies can be cut so there are pale streaks coming from a point. (No-one ever found it! But alchemists learn a lot about chemicals while trying, and provided a foundation for modern chemistry). The 'perfect ruby' is an alchemist term for the Elixir or Philosopher's Stone, which would turn ordinary metal to gold, and would make you live for ever. Good quality rubies are still very valuable, as much or more than diamonds. You can see from this, and the muddle over Sapphire's name, that there has been great confusion over the names of stones throughout history. In the Bible (King James' version), in Proverbs, it says 'Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above Rubies.' However, it is now thought that Coral was meant by this. It was fixed as Red Corundum in about 1800. Ruby was used for different types of red stones. Romans used Sapphires for the development of greater trade with India at the time of the Emperor Trajan. Now Hyacinthus is another name of zircon (which looks nothing like sapphire!) The name of sapphire was Hyacinthus, because they were supposed to look like the flower. Sapphire was originally the name of lapis lazuli. Another name of Corundum is Emery, and Emery paper is used for rubbing things smooth. Or you can just have corundum (below right).Ĭorundum is a very hard stone.

Corundum ruby sapphire