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(15 millimeters across at its widest)
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This polished cabochon ("cab") is a synthetic blue sapphire. Sapphire is aluminum oxide (Al2O3). In nature, this chemical is given the mineral name "corundum". Gem-quality corundum of any color except red is called "sapphire". When red, it is called "ruby". Corundum has a nonmetallic luster, can be any color, has a white streak, and a hardness of 9 on the Mohs Hardness Scale. It forms hexagonal crystals with flat ends and has no cleavage. Natural sapphire and ruby gemstones can have a hexaradiate "star" effect - it is best seen in very bright light. The center of the star moves around as the gem is tilted in the light. The star effect is called "asterism" or "triple chatoyancy" or "stellate opalescence", caused by scattering of light by microscopic rutile crystals. Rutile is TiO2 - titanium dioxide.
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See info. at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire#Star_sapphire
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This golden-tailed sapphire / zafiro de cola dorada was
photographed at WildSumaco Lodge, Guamani, Napo Ecuador
This photograph was obtained at a facility with no wildlife in captivity. Some birds, mammals, and insects were drawn within photographic range by the provision of various carefully maintained foods appropriate to the species and habitat. Natural foods were also abundantly available in the area within and around the facility.
A Sapphire Flutterer (Rhyothemis triangularis) in Pasir Ris Park.
Take a nature walk with me in my blog: Back To Changi and Pasir Ris Park/Mangroves
*Note: More pics of Dragonflies and Damselflies in my Dragonflies and Damselflies Album.
Story and builds for the Sapphire Mirror Lake sim by Haveit Neox and Lilia Artis. This was a sim dedicated to Arts and Performance at Fantasy Faire 2016, in the virtual world of Second Life®."
Videos by Haveit Neox :
More pictures by Praline B
19 April 2016
Sapphire Travel M600 TMS
ex Catteralls, Southam
Volvo B10M/Plaxton Premiere 320
Prospect Way, Royal Oak, Daventry
The hands behind are for the noble cause of digging out of earth the treasure of food, not less than the sapphire & emeralds -if compared the present global economic situation?
The Sapphire GT is a 1940's Grand Tourer. It has a V8 producing 170 Horsepower, connected to a 4 speed gear box, and capable of 125 MPH. Inside are tan leather seats, a wood steering wheel, and a 1x3 stud trunk. This model was built and renderd using Studio and was inspired by the Bugatti Type 57 and a 1940s Mercedes 300.
This is my second entry in the Lego Ideas Vintage Car Contest.
Seen in the Wrexham depot of Arriva Cyrmu is a rather smart looking J300ABW (4403) an Alexander Enviro 400, branded up as the Sapphire route 1 that operates between Wrexham and Chester.
26th July 2014
One of our first days out discovering the island of Saint Thomas, USVI (and tropical beaches in general). This is Sapphire Beach at Saint John Bay on the Northeast corner of the island. This beach is special to me because it's where myself and my family first saw turquoise water like this (and were blown away). I found that not all beaches looked this way and the ones that did, not all the time. It was dependent on lighting and cloud cover. Sometimes I'd look out on Bolongo bay where we stayed and it looked just like any inlet here in the Puget Sound (bleak, drab, boring) and other times it looked just like this. I also found out for snorkeling, the beautiful light blue water is boring because it's just sand (aka desert). The interesting things to see were over the dark colored areas which were usually reef(ish) and had lots of aquatic life.
Blue corundum (sapphire) (~5.0 centimeters across at its widest)
A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are over 6100 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.
The oxide minerals all contain one or more oxide anions (O-2). The oxide minerals include species that are hydroxy-oxides. The hydroxide minerals (those with one or more OH-) are usually considered together with the oxides. Many sulfide minerals are not stable in Earth-surface conditions. In the presence of oxygen and moisture, sulfide minerals tend to tarnish or alter to oxides and hydroxy-oxides. All except the most inert elements (such as the platinum-group elements and gold and noble gases) readily form oxides. Gold oxide forms only under special conditions.
Corundum is aluminum oxide - Al2O3. At H≡9, it is the hardest common mineral, apart from diamond. Corundum forms hexagonal crystals, which is evident even in many river-worn specimens. The hexagonal columns of corundum typically have well-developed flat tops & bottoms. These flat ends are not cleavage planes - corundum has no cleavage. The cleavage-looking flat tops & bottoms of corundum are called partings (pseudocleavage). Additional breakages will not be along planar surfaces.
The color of corundum is variable - it can be any color, including plaid patterns. If transparent and relatively fracture-free & inclusion-free, corundum is said to be of gem-quality, and the color determines the name of the gem.
deep red = ruby
blue = sapphire
pale red = sapphire
pale green = sapphire
purple = sapphire
yellow = sapphire
Sapphire covers the largest number of colors. Gemologists and gem dealers will often deceivingly use the term "oriental" in referring to non-blue colored sapphires. For example, "oriental amethyst" is purple corundum, "oriental topaz" is yellow corundum, "oriental emerald" is green corundum, etc. Black-colored corundum is often called emery. Corundum-rich rocks are also called emery, or corundite (www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/albums/72157646922258716).
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Photo gallery of corundum and sapphire:
www.mindat.org/gallery.php?min=1136
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Arriva North West "Sapphire" CX58EVP 2742 seen on Portland Street, Manchester on service 263 to Altrincham
Culprit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyeplOOklF8
LXF: www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Cagerrin/MOCs/LDD/sapphire_bul...
turns out it's sturdy enough to build, give me a couple of months
Rutile in star sapphire. Using a new digital imager for my microscope, I get great results! 50X. Take a close look at the daughter crystals attached to the ends of the rutile.
This golden-tailed sapphire / zafiro de cola dorada was photographed at WildSumaco Lodge, Guamaní Napo Ecuador
This photograph was obtained at a facility with no wildlife in captivity. Some birds, mammals, and insects were drawn within photographic range by the provision of various carefully maintained foods appropriate to the species and habitat. Natural foods were also abundantly available in the area within and around the facility.
Brand new, the 2nd day in service, seen sparkling and turning heads in Loftus.
This is one of fourteen new Streetlites for Redcar's X3/X4 4 service, Middlesbrough-Redcar-Saltburn-Whitby. The service is now Arriva's premium "Sapphire" brand.
The buses are high spec and feature E-leather high backed seating, charging points for Laptops and phones, next stop visual and audio announcements, free WI-Fi oh and extra grr for the hilly areas here.
This golden-tailed sapphire / zafiro de cola dorada was photographed at WildSumaco Lodge, Guamaní Napo Ecuador
This photograph was obtained at a facility with no wildlife in captivity. Some birds, mammals, and insects were drawn within photographic range by the provision of various carefully maintained foods appropriate to the species and habitat. Natural foods were also abundantly available in the area within and around the facility.
In northern Kings Canyon National Park, the next lake upstream from Evolution Lake on the John Muir/ Pacific Crest Trail, at the foot Mt. Huxley (13,086 ft.) is Sapphire Lake with its chain of outlet pools. In the evening I hiked up this hill to find a well composed foreground that included enough trees and rocks to add depth, but no elements prominent enough to be distracting. I returned at dawn to get the first sun as it hit Mt. Fisk (left 13,503 ft), Mt. Huxley (center,13,086 ft.) and the Goddard Divide (right). The left side of the glacially polished granite bowl had a wonderful glowing bluish-silver luminosity that is sort-of evident in the photo. The John Muir Trail can be faintly seen in the meadow.
Sapphire is a OOAK Fairy designed by Chynadoll
Creations. She is a S.I.S Barbie repaint with a full face repaint using artistic acrylics and sealers. She is wearing OOAK fairy wings with sterling silver accents.
OOAK Fairy Wings created by Ann Marriott of Annes designs
4803 is seen in Leicester on a Sapphire 31A. The regulator pulled it to the side and swapped it with one of the spare Volvo Gemini's. 4803 then worked the 49A.
Arriva North West 'Sapphire' (Macclesfield depot) MX09EKK 2930 seen coming into Cheadle Village on service 130 to Macclesfield
Looking a litle out of place with its "Cymru Coastliner" branding, ARRIVA Cymru 4486 CX61 CDU is seen on Herons Way in Chester Business Park whilst working on "Sapphire" route 1. Saturday 8th June 2013.
Route 1 between Chester and Wrexham was relaunched earlier in 2013 with refurbished Enviro 400's carrying a new livery and branded "Sapphire", however guest appearances by other vehicles can occur should a dedicated vehicle be unavailable - it's therefore sod's law that my first attempt at photographing one of the refurbished Enviro 400's ended in failure....still I only had another 12 minutes to wait!.
VDL D6300 - Wrightbus Gemini 2
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December sunrise from the aptly named Sapphire Bay beach, on the island of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.
This is a 120 megapixel panorama, composited in CS5 using 10 portrait-mode images, utilizing puppet warp to correct distortions in the composite.
A Sapphire Flutterer (Rhyothemis triangularis) in Pasir Ris Park.
Explore with me in my blog: A Return To Pasir Ris Park and Mangrove Forest
*Note: More pics of Dragonflies and Damselflies in my Dragonflies and Damselflies Album.