sapphire
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Materials with this level of hardness are among the toughest used in industrial applications and rank just below superhard materials such as sapphire and diamond.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
Tour the Smithsonian Gem Collection whenever you want with this book on the histories of the Star of Asia sapphire, the Dom Pedro Aquamarine obelisk and the Hope Diamond.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
The stolen items included sapphire and emerald sets once worn by Napoleon’s wives and Empress Eugénie’s diamond corsage brooch.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2025
He stood just over 5 feet but commanded theaters filled with thousands of people, standing onstage in shimmering sapphire or gold lamé suits, while four generations of fans screamed his name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2025
The women would be attired in colorful ball gowns—blush pink, scarlet, sapphire blue, and forest green—and the men in tuxedos.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
Thousands of diamonds studded the jewels, as well as sapphires and emeralds the size of lozenges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
It has eight sapphires and 631 diamonds, according to the Louvre's website.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
Abraham-Louis Breguet's No.160 Marie Antoinette timepiece features rubies, sapphires, platinum and gold.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2024
He says we will see brightly coloured gemstones like rubies, emeralds, and sapphires take the spotlight and "a lot of asymmetrical designs and chunky, unconventional shapes".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024
We sat beside each other by the fire, silent, watching the jewels change and glow first into white diamonds, then into sapphires, then into rubies.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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