List of sapphires by size explained

This is a list of sapphires by size.

Sapphire

Sapphires are a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, consisting of aluminum oxide with trace amounts of elements such as iron, titanium, chromium, copper, or magnesium. It is typically blue, but natural "fancy" sapphires also occur in yellow, purple, orange, and green colors; "parti sapphires" show two or more colors. The only color corundum stone that the term sapphire is not used for is red, which is called a ruby. Pink colored corundum may be either classified as ruby or sapphire depending on locale. Commonly, natural sapphires are cut and polished into gemstones and worn in jewelry. They also may be created synthetically in laboratories for industrial or decorative purposes in large crystal boules. Because of the remarkable hardness of sapphires – 9 on the Mohs scale (the third hardest mineral, after diamond at 10 and moissanite at 9.5) – sapphires are also used in some non-ornamental applications, such as infrared optical components, high-durability windows, wristwatch crystals and movement bearings, and very thin electronic wafers, which are used as the insulating substrates of special-purpose solid-state electronics such as integrated circuits and GaN-based blue LEDs.

Sapphire is the birthstone for September and the gem of the 45th anniversary. A sapphire jubilee occurs after 65 years.

List of sapphires

SapphireOriginDateSizeCutColorLocationRef
Sri Lanka20151404.49carat StarBlueAnonymous owner
Australia1938733carat StarBlackAnonymous owner
Star of IndiaSri Lanka563.4carat StarBlue-grayAmerican Museum of Natural History, New York
Sri Lanka478.68carat CushionBlueAnonymous owner
Sri Lanka422.99carat CushionBlueNational Museum of Natural History, Washington
Burma330carat StarBlueNational Museum of Natural History, Washington
Star of ArtabanSri Lanka287carat StarBlue-violetNational Museum of Natural History, Washington
Star of BombaySri Lanka182carat StarBlue-violetNational Museum of Natural History, Washington
Ruspoli Sapphire136.9carat
Stuart SapphireSri Lanka104carat BlueTower of London
Myanmar98.56caratTableBlueNational Museum of Natural History, Washington
22.66caratCornflower National Museum of Natural History, Washington

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. Davenport. Cyril . Younghusband. George John . George Younghusband. The crown jewels of England. 1919. Funk. - Total pages: 84

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