Precipitation in star sapphire I. Identification of the precipitate
- 27 September 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Philosophical Magazine A
- Vol. 42 (3) , 385-404
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01418618008239365
Abstract
The asterism in star sapphire is due to precipitation of needle-like particles in the basal plane of sapphire. These particles have now been identified as rutile (TiO2) by both electron diffraction and microchemical analysis. The rutile needles have the following orientation relationship with the host sapphire: 〈011〉R‖〈1010〉S {011}R‖{1110}S where the first relation defines the needle axis. This orientation occurs because of the good lattice matching it provides.Keywords
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