Fantasy Cut Laser Sapphire, Titanium Strawberry Sapphire Stone:Pixel, 10.6×8.1mm, 5.75ct GAGG is a lab created

GAGG is a lab created garnet which is increasingly used in scientific and medical equipment

Each lap comes with a spacer to allow the lap nut to lock it in place

This is a real cool rarity in the gem world: bismuth germanate (in this case

We recently got our hands on a few alexandrite crystal heads

4 directions of cleavage and very low refractive index require a careful approach

Fantasy Cut Laser Sapphire, Titanium Strawberry Sapphire Stone:Pixel, 10.6×8.1mm, 5.75ct GAGG is a lab createdThese are fantasy cut pink laser sapphires, most with concave facets. These labgrown sapphires have bubbles in them from the growth process we call this variety 'strawberry sapphires' since they have seeds. 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 and produce a dark blue, there's nowhere on Earth a crystal like this could grow