corundum
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The Bronco mane and eyeball were created from orange sapphires while the head features pave-set diamonds and custom-cut corundum blue stone.
From Washington Times • Jun. 12, 2016
For example apatite is about three times harder than fluorite and diamond is three times harder than corundum.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
It’s also a bonza industrial abrasive, and clear slices of synthetic corundum are used to make bullet-proof “glass.”
From Scientific American • Apr. 14, 2012
Rubies and sapphires, which are both made of the same mineral, corundum, are “quite durable,” according to John Watkins, an independent goldsmith in Lake Nacimiento, California.
From BusinessWeek • May 31, 2011
From his experiments he believes that yellow corundum, or oriental topaz, may have been formed from blue corundum under the influence of radioactive substances present in the soil in which the sapphire was embedded.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
