Created Pink Whats the difference between pink sapphire and created pink sapphire?
What does it mean to have a ring with "created pink sapphire"? Is the stone the same as pink sapphire, or is it fake? Or something else completely..?
regular gem stones are mined from rocks. Created means it's synthetic/man made.
In 1902, French chemist Auguste Verneuil developed a process for growing synthetic sapphire crystals.[10] In the Verneuil process, fine alumina powder is added to an oxyhydrogen flame which is directed downward against a mantle.[11] Alumina in the flame is slowly deposited, creating a teardrop shaped 'boule' of sapphire. Chemical dopants can be added to create artificial versions of ruby and all the other sapphire gems, plus colors never seen in nature. Artificial sapphire is identical to natural sapphire, except it can be made without the flaws found in natural stones. However the Verneuil process had the disadvantage that the crystals created with it had high internal strains. Many methods of manufacturing sapphire today are variations of the Czochralski process, invented in 1916.[12] A tiny sapphire seed crystal is dipped into a crucible of molten alumina and slowly withdrawn upward at a rate of 1 to 100 mm per hour. The alumina crystallizes on the end, creating long carrot shaped boules of large size, up to 400 mm in diameter and weighing almost 500 kg.[
