Synthetic ruby

Apsara - Wholesalers of fine precious stones including untreated rubies and sapphires and other coloured gems.

Apsara - Wholesalers of fine precious stones including untreated rubies and sapphires and other coloured gems.

Virtually all gemologists are aware of the curved growth lines and gas bubbles in Verneuil (flame-fusion) synthetic corundum, but few understand exactly why they occur and how they are distributed in these stones. This article clarifies these important identifying features.

Apsara - Wholesalers of fine precious stones including untreated rubies and sapphires and other coloured gems.

Each of the twin flux grown synthetic ruby crystals has a rounded blue sapphire seed crystal at its center. Typical inclusions of platinum and primary and secondary flux inclusions are also present. Magnification 10x

A plane of unmelted flux in a Hydrothemally created synthetic Ruby forms a fingerprint-like pattern.

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