• DOI:10.1117/12.501428
Corpus ID: 109528895

A peek into the history of sapphire crystal growth

@inproceedings{Harris2003API,
  title={A peek into the history of sapphire crystal growth},
  author={D. Harris},
  booktitle={SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing},
  year={2003}
}

D. Harris

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SPIE Defense + Commercial…

2003

Engineering

After the chemical compositions of sapphire and ruby were unraveled in the middle of the 19th century, chemists set out to grow artificial crystals of these valuable gemstones. In 1885 a dealer in Geneva began to sell ruby that is now believed to have been created by flame fusion. Gemnologists rapidly concluded that the stones were artificial, but the Geneva ruby stimulated A. V. L. Verneuil in Paris to develop a flame fusion process to produce higher quality ruby and sapphire. By 1900 there… CONTINUE READING

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