Sapphire: protect the blue in your heart

As September's birthstone, sapphire symbolizes loyalty, steadfastness and strength. She graciously passing, sometimes noble, sometimes pretty, and crystal clear. The Earth is a beautiful blue planet, the people in the Earth have a kind of innate sense of belonging to the blue. Many people have a soft spot for blue gems,which the most precious is the blue corundum.

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Sapphire and ruby corundum are a kind of main chemical composition of aluminum oxide, as containing a small amount of different impurities which show different colors.

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The Sapphire have the characters as follows:

1, uneven color, you can see width ranges growth zone from different shades of hexagons;
2 Mohs hardness of 9, second only to diamond hardness of 10;
3, there are two strong color, usually blue and blue-green;
4, often contains silk-like mineral inclusions or diffuse-like gas-liquid inclusions.

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In the mace,crown and all kinds of jewelry, we can always see the body of sapphire. If we say that Sapphire is a royal jewelry, and that was not exaggeration. For a long time, sapphire and the nobility have been inextricably linked. King Edward VIII gave up the crown to become Duke of Windsor, and hand in hand with Mrs. Simpson's, that achieved a dream-like love. Now fairy tale hero are long gone, leaving only a series of beautiful jewelry, that part of love with a beautiful memorial. One of the most famous are a cheetah brooch that made of platinum. The cheetah squat at a Kashmir sapphire rounded cut, the upright posture revealed a unique noble temperament of the royal family.

When the Queen Elizabeth II wedding,his father George VI gave her a sapphire necklace and earrings as a gift, after the Queen ascended the throne, it also subscribe to a matching sapphire crown. The sapphire jewelry have been accompanied by the Queen appeared in a number of formal occasions. Princess Diana at the wedding was also wearing a ring set with sapphire,and perfect interpretation of the reality Cinderella.

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Van Cleef & Arpels Fil de l'eau sapphire diamond necklace

Bvlgari Sapphire and diamond watch

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Outside works of sapphire jewelry

In addition to the sapphire have reputation in the royal family, religious history, and also the Sapphire will be in another low-key in the world. At that time, a sapphire navigation key mobile phone Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte has attracted many followers. In the watch industry, sapphire mirror face is even more noteworthy in this respect. Many watches are based on a watch mirror synthetic sapphire, the high purity alumina and ground into a fine white powder, combined with metal oxide by high-temperature synthesis, the final cut with diamond cutter shape of its. The watch face that produced in this way with a high degree of transparency and high wear-resistant properties.

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