Oxide Mineral Corundum
name: label: Discipline
content: Mineral Sciences
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Notes
content: This specimen is corundum, which is the crystalline form of aluminum oxide. Corundum is naturally transparent but metal impurities can give it a variety of colors including: gray, golden-brown, purple, pink, red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. For example, two colored gem varieties with these metal impurities are ruby and sapphire.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 1
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Nov 2023
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
publisher: label: Scientific Name
content: Oxide Mineral Corundum
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO80395
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections