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  AAASAPPHIRES.com - Sapphires, Blue Sapphires, Untreated Blue Sapphires, Blue Sapphire, Blue Ceylon Sapphire, Unheated ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Color change Sapphires are those which have two colors which are distinct when the light source is changed from fluorescent to incandescent.
Colorless (white) Sapphire (corundum) is a 9 on the Moh's scale, and a refractive index of 1.76 and Diamond is a 10 on the Moh's scale, and a refractive index of 2.41, the highest for colorless minerals.
The value of star sapphires are influenced by at least these two things: 1) the intensity and attractiveness of the body color, and 2) the strength and sharpness of the star.
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 The gemstone sapphire
Sapphire with a color other than blue is often called a "fancy" in the gem trade.
Color zoning, which forms from growth layers that build up during the formation of the stone, is present in certain sapphires.
Sapphire is pleochroic, displaying a lighter and more intense color when viewed at different angles.
www.minerals.net /gemstone/gemstone/sapphire/sapphire.htm   (754 words)

  
 Sapphire
Sapphire is the anniversary gemstone for the 5th and 45th year of marriage.
Sapphire engagement rings are given to express the commitment and loyalty of their heart.
Sapphire is said to be the Fall Gemstone of the Season.
www.jewelrymall.com /stones/sapphire.html   (526 words)

  
 Emerald - rich green color mogul emeralds Gemstones Gems Jewelry Beads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sapphire is often considered to be synonynous with the color blue: you can easily picture sapphire seas.
The International Colored Gemstone Association has passed a resolution that the light shades of the red hue should be included in the category ruby since it was too difficult to legislate where red ended and pink began.
Padparadscha sapphires are very rare and the exact definition has always been a matter of debate: different dealers and different laboratories around the world disagree on the exact color described by this term.
www.gemjewel.com /learn/fancy_sapphires.asp   (445 words)

  
 Blue Sapphire
The most famous and valuable sapphires, such as the St. Edward's sapphire and the Stuart sapphire, part of the English crown jewels, are a rich, intense blue.
Desirable, intense blue sapphires have become more available in the past 20 years because some light, cloudy or over dark sapphire can now be heated at very high temperatures to improve the color or clarity, according to the International Colored Gemstone Association.
Sapphire is traditionally thought to be the stone on which the Ten Commandments were carved.
www.penoir.com /stones/Sapp.html   (1659 words)

  
 The Color Source
Sapphires are often found in larger sizes than rubies; ten to twenty carats are not uncommon.
All of the other colors of sapphire (orange, yellow, pink, green) are judged by the intensity of color and the brightness or brilliance the gem displays.
Star sapphires are judged by the sharpness of the star, the straightness of its "legs", whether the star is centered, and whether the legs go to the girdle's edge.
www.thecolorsource.com /gems/sapphire.htm   (479 words)

  
 Created sapphire rings for man and woman and sapphire jewelry.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This color of sapphire is sweet of sugar -- the cotton candy shade of pink sapphire.
Stunning colors such as the orange padparadsha sapphire complement the new fashion colors in today's men's and woman's fashion.
Sapphire rings for a man or a woman are come in may styles from bold to contemporary to dainty to accented.
www.jewelrytreasureoftheearth.org /Sapphire-Jewelry.html   (1162 words)

  
 Ruby & Sapphire prices
A small quantity of fine sapphires are found in Australia, and it would be far better to have a fine Australian sapphire than a poor piece from Kashmir or Burma.
Australian yellow sapphires tend to be overly greenish, although fine golden yellows are found in the Anakie, Queensland mines.
Virtually all rubies and sapphires sold today have been subjected to high-temperature heat treatment for color and/or clarity enhancement (the exception is stones mined prior to 1975 and not subsequently treated).
www.ruby-sapphire.com /r-s-bk-prices.htm   (2298 words)

  
 Sapphire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sapphires became the symbol of Saint Paul during the Roman Empire, and later in the Middle Ages, it came to be worn on the fingers of popes and archbishops.
The rest are called Fancy Sapphires, the color of which are determined by the mixture of chrome [Cr], iron [Fe], titanium [Ti] or vanadium [V].
The color of minerals differ depending on the region they are found, but it is generally difficult to study such differences.
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 Unheated untreated Sapphires Questions m www.sapphires.ca
When a sapphire has been color-enhanced with heat, the inclusions (the naturally occurring variations in structure and composition within the stone) become modified in specific and predictable ways that are visible when an experienced and trained gemologist examines the stone with a gemological microscope.
The presence within a sapphire of intact, unaltered "silk" is a very good indicator that the sapphire has not been subjected to the high heat treatment that is used to enhance color.
These sapphires are very popular in the gem trade because they are so cheap at the source and many consumers have been misinformed as to their true value by being told that "dark is better".
www.sapphires.ca /faq.html   (2897 words)

  
 Sapphire
This is a light blue with a tint of purple colored sapphire from Tanzania Africa, not heated.
Gem 204 - Blue Sapphire - 1.23 ct. This is a traditional marquise cut in a medium blue with a touch of purple sapphire.
Gem 61 - Montana Sapphire - 0.49 ct. Here is one from the Yugo mine in Montana, which is known for the finest in Montana blue sapphires.
precisiongem.com /html/sapphire.html   (497 words)

  
 GEMSTONE FACTS - AwesomeGems.com - Blue Ceylon Sapphire Burma Ruby Colombian Emerald Russian Alexandrite Collector Gems
The strength of the color change is related to the difference in the areas of transmission, relative to the absorption in the yellow.
To get the maximum color change effect the gem is best viewed in a dark room with no outdoor light at all, then turn on a fluorescent light to see the green shade, then turn on a standard incandescent light bulb with the fluorescent light off to see the reddish shade.
When the primary color has a bit of brownish in with the green, this is due to the bleeding of the two colors.
awesomegems.com /gemfacts.html   (6349 words)

  
 PINK SAPPHIRE - Top Gem Quality Pink Sapphire from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
A color change Gemstone is one that changes from one color to another due to a change in the light source.
GIA examination of this "heat" treatment process reveals that the color does not go all the way through the gem, but is only in the outer layer, so if the stone is ever recut the Padparadscha color layer would be removed, so the stone would be returned to it's original predominant Pink color.
Yellow Sapphires are bright gemstones that range in color from a "Light Buttery Yellow" (light fancy yellow), a "Medium Buttery Yellow" or "Light Canary Yellow" (fancy yellow), a "Rich Buttery Yellow" or "Canary Yellow" (fancy intense yellow), to a "Rich Canary Yellow" (vivid yellow).
www.netmarketing.net /gems/pinksapphire.htm   (2070 words)

  
 Vedic White sapphire: High quality, untreated white sapphires for ayurveda and healing purposes.
Diamond, white sapphire and damburite are the Jyotish gems related to Venus, which is the planet of love, beauty, arts and married life.
Wearing a fine white sapphire of at least 2 carats and a damburite of a t least 3 ct., is said to bestow happiness in married life as well as magnetism and attractiveness for the wearer.
Availability of fine white sapphires over 1 ct. in size is very scarce, therefore a 4+ ct. gem is a rare treasure that cannot be passed on.
www.planetarygems.com /Diamondpage.htm   (3525 words)

  
 Sapphire
n a gigantic sapphire… and that the reflection from the gem gave the sky its beautiful blue color.
Blue is the color most often associated with this birthstone, but it is not the only popular color for a sapphire gem stone.
Blue is the expected color for sapphire, and red corundum is the gem that we call ruby.
www.azgem.com /sapphire.html   (228 words)

  
 sapphire necklaces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 September Birthstone | Blue Pink Sapphire Gems, Sapphire Birthstone, Sapphire Jewelry | Thaigem.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sapphires come in all spectrums of color, except for red.
Often when people simply refer to sapphires, they mean blue sapphires.
Other color sapphires are correctly referred to as fancy sapphires.
www.thaigem.com /september_birthstone_sapphire.asp   (121 words)

  
 AAASAPPHIRES.com - Ceylon Sapphires, Blue Ceylon Sapphires, Padparadscha Sapphires, and Fancy Color Sapphire in Yellow, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
AAASAPPHIRES.com - Ceylon Sapphires, Blue Ceylon Sapphires, Padparadscha Sapphires, and Fancy Color Sapphire in Yellow, Golden, Orange, Red, Ruby, Rubies, Pink, Purple and White...
The exception is Golden Sapphire, Orange Sapphire as well as some of the darker shades of Blue Sapphire, and these Ceylon stones are typically heat enhanced to
Fine Star Sapphire is normally "not treated", since the treatment process would dissolve the rutile needles that causes the asterism to form a star.
www.aaasapphires.com /ceylonsapphire.html   (2176 words)

  
 Pink Sapphire Jewelry at mineralminers.com
Natural pink sapphires with this tone of reddish-pink color are referred to as having "hot pink" color.
Translucent pink sapphires were ground and polished into rounded disk shaped beads and then drilled and strung in an 18" length with a sterling silver clasp.
Their color is completely natural; a beautiful reddish-pink under incandescent light, and under daylight the color is a lovely lavender-pink.
www.mineralminers.com /html/spkjlry.stm   (899 words)

  
 Gem Hut - White Sapphire Gemstones
White sapphire is an excellent diamond substitute as it is brilliant and second only to diamond itself in hardness.
Many larger white sapphires are illegally diffused with a blue coating and sold as blue sapphire.
White sapphire is always heat treated to produce, intensify or lighten color and/or improve color uniformity and appearance.
www.gemhut.com /whtsph.htm   (103 words)

  
 infos: color change synthetic sapphire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Synthetic Precision Sapphire and Ruby Jewels, Vee jewel bearings...
Sapphire Technologies is a leading worldwide provider of innovative IT staffing solutions.
Sapphire places IT professionals in the hottest companies across the country.
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 Sapphire Games
The idea of game 1 is to fill horizontal lines with the blocks, as in tetris, but the rules are somewhat more complex: a piece's color is also important.
In game 2, pieces are multicolored, and when you drop a piece, adjacent blocks of the same color will disappear.
Game 3 is similar to game 1, in that pieces are of a solid color, but the Tetris Creator clambers around the game pit.
www.sapphiregames.com   (837 words)

  
 Natural Pink Sapphire Gem Stones
Enhancement / Heating The use of heat to effect desired alteration of color, clairity and or Phenomena.
All of these stones are hand cut by the finest craftsmen.
All of these stones have the finest clarity and color.
www.justgemstones.com /natural_pink_sapphire.html   (649 words)

  
 The Natural Sapphire Company, since 1939 specializing in the finest blue sapphires, pink sapphires, yellow sapphires, ...
The Natural Sapphire Company, since 1939 specializing in the finest blue sapphires, pink sapphires, yellow sapphires, sapphire rings, sapphire earrings, sapphire jewelry, sapphire necklaces and rare sapphires
ost anywhere else you look for sapphires online, in a store or from 'wholesalers' they will be trying to sell you a treated sapphire.
Our sapphires are valuable, they are not easily replaceable, and they are made by mother nature, not by man's fooling.
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 Gem Hut - Color Change Sapphire Gemstones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Like alexandrite, the color appears different depending on the type of light present.
Other color change combinations exist, such as blue to green.
Color change sapphire is always heat treated to produce, intensify or lighten color and/or improve color uniformity and appearance.
www.gemhut.com /ccsph.htm   (65 words)

  
 sapphire jewelry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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Perfect Pink Sapphires create a line which suggestively intersects a Diamond loop; at the end of the line dangles another sexy Diamond loop.
The Pink Sapphires are round in shape and weigh 1.70 Carat Total Weight.
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 Thailand loose gemstones: blue pink yellow fancy sapphire tourmaline blue sapphire tourmaline gemstones Burmese Burma ...
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Ceylon sapphire, Madagascar, pink, blue and star sapphire as well as blood red Burma ruby and star rubies.
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 Color Change Sapphire Gem
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 Wholesale loose Color Change Sapphire gemstones, Sapphire gemstones - ajsgems.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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Natural Color Change Sapphire - Precision Cut, Loose Wholesale Color Change Sapphire
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