My Home-Grown Ruby Crystals! Flux Gems Made by Me

My Home-Grown Ruby Crystals! Flux Gems Made by MeI've been trying to grow crystals of ruby at home for over a year now, and I've finally had a few runs produce crystals big enough to separate and offer for sale. These are still very small but they're big enough to see with the naked eye with beautiful sparkles and bright pink red coloration. Run 1 is from my first run to produce a good crop of decently sized rubies, topping out around 2. 5mm. Many of these are platy in form, and they have good

These are BGO-12 aka Bismuth Germanate facet rough

fashionable radiologist

Dinosaur Bone: This one is a bit unusual for us

These were grown in a sodium-molybdenum oxide flux mix

Its major downsides are a hardness of 3

They have a colorless seed plate running through the middle but will still make an incredible die

One of our partners told us they were going to start growing this material a little over a year ago

or when illuminated by computer monitors or phone screens

These crystals were grown originally for use as semiconductors but did not meet spec

and if any of the light bounces back at them it can quickly burn them out

When it's grown with industrial purity

Cr:YAG is used in lasers as a 'q switch'