Peach pink sapphire material Corundum gemstone for ring or necklace

Sapphire is not all blue, Mohs hardness 9, hardness second only to diamond, because the mineral content is different, showing different colors, according to the rarity from top to bottom divided into pink, blue, yellow and white.

Pink sapphire Introduction

There are two main branches in the corundum family, one is the ruby, which contains all red corundum. The other is sapphire, which includes all other colors of corundum except ruby. Pink sapphire is a special and beautiful branch of sapphire, known for its sweet and soft color, and is loved by people.

Pure pink sapphire is caused by a very small amount of chromium, and as the chromium content increases to form a continuous ruby color range. Very small amounts of iron may produce pink-orange gems called Padma corundum, and iron and titanium impurities together may form purple gems. Pink sapphires cut into longitudinal sections.

Name: Pink sapphire - corundum

English name: pink sapphire - corundum

Crystal structure: three sides

Composition: Alumina

Hardness: 9

Specific gravity: 4.00

Refractive index: 1.76-1.77

Birefringence: 0.008

Gloss: glassy

Although there are many kinds of sapphire colors, pink sapphire has always been one of the most popular colors in sapphire, and it is also a gemstone variety with a faster price rise in recent years, and consumers around the world have been extremely enthusiastic about it. People may wonder why pink sapphire does not belong to ruby, although there is a hint of warmth in the pink color, but its tone is more elegant than the ruby tone, showing a delicate bright pink, but not very rich, can not be called ruby.

And then there's the value of pink sapphires. Although in the color sapphire family, its price is second only to Papalacha sapphire, but the pink sapphire quality of tens of thousands of dollars per carat, but if the color with obvious brown, gray, that value will be greatly discounted. Our pink sapphires are Synthetic gemstone.