Strawberry Carved Laser Sapphire, Titanium Strawberry Sapphire bismuth germanate The way this is done

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

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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

Note the camera can't capture the true color - there is a red glow to these stones thanks to their strong fluorescence but it doesn't dominate like it does in the photos

Strawberry Carved Laser Sapphire, Titanium Strawberry Sapphire bismuth germanate The way this is doneThese 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