Pink Laser Sapphire Cabochons, Titanium Strawberry Sapphire TikTok Note that the crystals are

Note that the crystals are still not completely perfect

suggesting maybe codoping with erbium or cerium(

following the movement of the sapphire melt during crysatllization

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

lab-created alexandrite gems faceted from crystals grown for lasers

Pink Laser Sapphire Cabochons, Titanium Strawberry Sapphire TikTok Note that the crystals areThese 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