Difference between revisions of "White sapphire"
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| + | Note: The page uses leukosapphire instead of just sapphire because <br> | ||
| + | just sapphire is often associated with a blue to black variant where the colour is caused by metal impurities. <br> | ||
| + | A base material for [[gemstone metamaterial technology]] would be perfectly impurity free and colorless clear though. <br> | ||
| + | Like a leukosapphire just better. | ||
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| + | == Related == | ||
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| + | * [[Moissanite]] is also an extremely heat resistant base material. | ||
| + | * [[Diamond]] is much less heat and oxidation resistant. | ||
| + | * Both [[diamond]] and [[moissanite]] have higher crystal structure symmetry than leukosapphire | ||
Revision as of 10:55, 30 March 2021
Advantages:
- very hard material, very high heat conductivity
- made out of the extremely common element aluminum (more common than carbon)
- thermodynamically stable not just metastable thus very heat resistant
Disadvantage:
Crystal structure of less high symmetry than other interesting base materials.
Maybe look at metastable polymorphs at the eventual cost of somewhat less heat resistance?
Note: The page uses leukosapphire instead of just sapphire because
just sapphire is often associated with a blue to black variant where the colour is caused by metal impurities.
A base material for gemstone metamaterial technology would be perfectly impurity free and colorless clear though.
Like a leukosapphire just better.
Related
- Moissanite is also an extremely heat resistant base material.
- Diamond is much less heat and oxidation resistant.
- Both diamond and moissanite have higher crystal structure symmetry than leukosapphire
