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To: Red Badger

Star Trek’s transparent aluminum.

Sapphire is aluminum oxide


6 posted on 03/10/2025 8:57:20 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Monty Python:

“Tungston Carbide Drill ?”


10 posted on 03/10/2025 8:58:56 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: SauronOfMordor

Sapphire is aluminum oxide...........with trace elements that give it the blue color.

Red ones are called rubies.

Take away the other impurities and it’s clear...........


11 posted on 03/10/2025 8:59:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Still too expensive, at around $10/sq inch.


18 posted on 03/10/2025 9:02:56 AM PDT by Jonty30 (I have invented blackened salmon salad by baking it in the oven for too long. )
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