Strawberry Carved Laser Sapphire, Titanium Strawberry Sapphire bismuth germanate 5 and good durability

5 and good durability

Cerium oxide is a magic bullet for most silicates

The way this is done is by cutting the garnet into square 'pixels'

not where they were a couple hours ago)

Some are end cuts that show crystal faces while others have been sawn into flat plates in the process of making wafers for scientific use

Strawberry Carved Laser Sapphire, Titanium Strawberry Sapphire bismuth germanate 5 and good durabilityThese are strawberries carved from titanium laser sapphire. These labgrown sapphires have bubbles in them from the growth process we call this variety 'strawberry sapphires' since they have seeds, hence the carvings. These are great little curiosities that could be made into beautiful jewelry. Titanium sapphire is a very unusual variety of sapphire, never found in nature. Because even a few parts per million of iron will interact with titanium ions