Description
Sapphire is the most precious and valuable gemstone. It is a very desirable gemstone due to its excellent color, hardness, durability, and luster. Sapphires are commonly worn as jewelry. Sapphires can be found naturally, by searching through certain sediments or rock formations, or they can be manufactured for industrial or decorative purposes in large crystal boules. Sapphires are used as a medicinal effect for intellect. It was believed that if you would like to be clever; frequently lick with the tongue in a sober state a sapphire. The gemstones warmth and power combined with the moisture would expel warm full juices that affect intellect and man will attain good intellect. Sapphires were also believed to cure eye infections and inflammation in the eye. Sapphire is the traditional birth stone for April and the stone for Wednesday.
Sapphire, meaning blue stone, is a variety of the mineral corundum, an aluminium oxide. Although blue is their most well-known color, sapphires are made up of any color, except for red when they would be called rubies. Sapphires may also be colorless, and are also found in shades of gray and black. Sapphires are commonly worn as jewelry and can be found naturally. Sapphires were not known as a distinct stone and sapphiros referred to any blue gem in general before the time of the Roman Empire. They were considered to be forms of jacinth. In the gem trade, Sapphire without any color prefix refers to the blue variety of the mineral Corundum. However, the term Sapphire encompasses all other gem varieties and colors of Corundum as well, excluding Ruby, the red variety of Corundum, which has its own name since antiquity. Wearing a blue sapphire, for instance, is believed to bring you a fortune, love, and release from prison. To many, Blue Sapphire holds the key to human happiness. Blue Sapphire mostly proved useful in helping people to overcome their difficulties and mitigating their worldly suffering and sorrow.