With the exception of the diamond no other gem is harder than a ruby.
Price brownish red ruby stone.
The color is not always red.
Ruby is distinguished for its bright red color being the most famed and fabled red gemstone.
Price ranges from 11 to around 100.
A rough ruby is a popular choice for those that have the skills to cut the stone into the different shapes and this allows them to customize the jewelry in a way that unique for the customer.
Solid single color red agate gemstones are often dyed to imitate carnelian another closely related gemstone.
The term star ruby in addition to referring to rubies that display asterism many also refer to transparent red corundum too light or too purple to properly call ruby.
Beside for its bright color it is a most desirable gem due to its hardness durability luster and rarity transparent rubies of large sizes are even rarer than diamonds.
Ruby is the red variety of the mineral corundum.
A very sturdy gem.
Sapphire the other gem variety of corundum encompasses all colors of corundum.
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Most red agates will exhibit other colors in their patterns such as gray blue black and white.
Dark red to brownish or purplish red.
Hessonite garnet hessonite garnet is smooth and round and ranges in color from a yellow orange to a bright orange to a brownish amber color.
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Red agate is a rare find with unicolor but banded red agate is quite common.
Agate is a layered or banded variety of chalcedony quartz it is a popular gemstone due to its affordability.
Rubies come in a wide variety of colors including bright red pink red brownish red dark red and even pink or purplish red.
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Rubies have a hardness level of 9 0 topped only by the diamond at 10 0.