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![oval cut scheelite from China](https://www.patrickvoillot.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/scheelite-taille-ovale-chine70.png)
![blue sapphire from Sri Lanka cushion cut](https://www.patrickvoillot.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/saphir-coussin-sri-lanka73.png)
sapphire
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March 24, 2021
Its name comes from the Hebrew “Sappir” which referred for a long time the blue gems, the “most beautiful things”. By 1800, it was shown that the ruby and sapphire were only varieties of the same mineral, corundum. Currently, sapphire corresponds to all the blue
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![rubies from Sri lanka oval cut](https://www.patrickvoillot.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/rubis-ovale-sri-lanka75.png)
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phosgenite
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March 24, 2021
Discovered in England, its name comes from the Greek “phos” meaning “light” and “genan” – “which leads “, in connection with its lights characteristic, was given by Haidinger. Karsten, who had described it in the early nineteenth century had named it hornblei.
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