Yag
date: label: date made
content: 1960s
name: label: maker
content: Bell Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: A paper tag associated with this synthetic garnet reads “S385 / Y3Ga5O12-Nn+Ti Y-Ga-Garnet / Brian Mason - USNM (originally Kurt / Nassau, Bell Labs.” Kurt Nassau (1927-2010) was born in Austria, fled the Nazis, moved to the United States, earned a PhD in physical chemistry, and worked as a research scientist at Bell Labs in Nassau, New York.
label: Description
content: YAG is the acronym for yttrium aluminum garnet, a crystal developed by Bell Laboratories for use in lasers but also suitable as a substitute for gems. The first YAG diamonds were introduced by Litton Industries’ Airtron Division in late 1969.
label: Description
content: Walter Tomaszewski, “The New ‘Diamond’: YAG Is Latest In Keeping Up With The Joneses,” New York Times (Jan. 3, 1971), p. F3.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Nassau
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Department of Mineral Sciences, Nationl Museum of Natural History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0329.75
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0329.75
label: accession number
content: 1988.0329
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mineral Sample
label: Object Name
content: Synthetic Garnet
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.7 cm x 2.5 cm x 3.9 cm; 3 1/16 in x in x 1 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 4.1275 cm x 6.985 cm x 3.175 cm