corundum

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The Bronco mane and eyeball were created from orange sapphires while the head features pave-set diamonds and custom-cut corundum blue stone.

From Washington Times • Jun. 12, 2016

For example apatite is about three times harder than fluorite and diamond is three times harder than corundum.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

It’s also a bonza industrial abrasive, and clear slices of synthetic corundum are used to make bullet-proof “glass.”

From Scientific American • Apr. 14, 2012

Diamonds are a 10 and almost four times harder than corundum.

From BusinessWeek • May 31, 2011

How to Point a Pencil.—Rub the pencil to a point in the groove of a corundum file.

From The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years by Werge, John