Pink Laser Sapphire Cabochons, Titanium Strawberry Sapphire TikTok but this material was grown

but this material was grown purely for use in the gem trade

It has dull red fluorescence

suggesting maybe codoping with erbium or cerium(

unlike anything else found in nature or any other synthetic

This is an unusual lab created garnet

Pink Laser Sapphire Cabochons, Titanium Strawberry Sapphire TikTok but this material was grownThese are cabochons cut from titanium laser sapphire. These labgrown sapphires have bubbles in them from the growth process we call this variety 'strawberry sapphires' since they have seeds, hence the carvings. The bubbles have a directional flow to them, following the movement of the sapphire melt during crysatllization, and many are deep blue black due to iron contamination. Titanium sapphire is a very unusual variety of sapphire, never found in