Pink Laser Sapphire Cabochons, Titanium Strawberry Sapphire TikTok This is an unusual lab

This is an unusual lab created garnet

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

Note that the crystals are still not completely perfect

There is a red glow to these stones thanks to their strong fluorescence but it doesn't dominate like it does in the photos

Pink Laser Sapphire Cabochons, Titanium Strawberry Sapphire TikTok This is an unusual labThese 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