Transparent Ruby Stone

Typical ruby clarity characteristics include thin mineral inclusions called needles.

Transparent ruby stone. All other hues of the gem species corundum are called sapphire. In essence ruby is a red sapphire since ruby and sapphire are identical in all properties except for color. Opaque rubies have so many inclusions that it is impossible to see through the stone. Ulexite has an unusual form of transparency.

Ruby is defined to be red. Download high quality and best resolution transparent pictures and cliparts with no background. The more rutile the more opaque the ruby. Transparent rubies of large sizes are even rarer than diamond s.

In nature there are rarely pure hues so when speaking of the hue of a gemstone we speak of primary and secondary and sometimes tertiary hues. A transparent gem is translucent and transmits light with little scattering. Translucent rubies are clear extremely valuable and rare. This allows us to see images as well as light through a transparent gem.

Transparent gemstones occur in the pure spectral hues of red orange yellow green blue violet. If large and prominent inclusions are located under the table facet they greatly diminish the transparency brilliance and value of the stone. Ruby is the red variety of the mineral corundum. There are white silky strands of the mineral rutile running through and bunching together inside the gemstone.

Significant surface reaching fractures can pose durability threats. Sapphire the other gem variety of corundum encompasses all colors of corundum aside from red.