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What are the varieties of Corundum?
Corundum comes in just about every color of the rainbow. Every color but red is considered sapphire. Red corundum is the mineral that forms rubies.
What is ruby made of?
Rubies are a variety of corundum, the mineral name for aluminum oxide, Al2O3. The red color comes from trace amounts of chromium.
What is the substance of sapphires?
Sapphires are the gemstone version of the mineral corundum. Sapphires come in every color except red corundum which are considered rubies.
What is the red color that comes out of a butterfly when it is no longer a crysalis?
The red color that comes out of a butterfly when it is no longer in it's chrysalis is the color from the butterfly's wings.
What countries is corundum found in?
Corundum is the mineral form of sapphires and rubies. It comes in every color of the rainbow. Red corundum is a ruby. Every other color is considered sapphire. Corundum is found all over the world from Africa to Asia to the United States but some of the most beautiful are found in Sri Lanka. You will often see these referred to as Ceylon Sapphires or Rubies.
What color comes from red and brown?
The color that comes from mixing red and brown is typically a darker shade of red, often referred to as maroon or burgundy.
What mineral has a hardness of 7 is red no streak color and a specific gravity of 2.65?
It is definitely a form of the mineral quartz, maybe jasper or carnelian.
What color is vermilion?
Vermilion is a fiery orange-red color. Vermilion pigment is produced from the mineral cinnabar.
What color comes from red and white?
pink
Is ruby radioactive?
No, ruby is not radioactive. Ruby is a variety of the mineral corundum, and its red color comes from traces of chromium in its crystal structure. Ruby itself does not emit any harmful radiation.
How is red made?
Red is a color. It appears when a substance is capable of absorbing every color of light except red.
Do trace elements in a mineral not effect the color or the value of the mineral?
Trace elements in a mineral can indeed affect its color and value. For example, the presence of chromium can give a mineral a red color, like in rubies. Additionally, certain rare trace elements can increase the value of a mineral due to their rarity and unique coloring effects.
