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Natural "Purple Sapphire" carat 0,98.
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Natural "Purple Sapphire". What is purple sapphire? Purple is a shade of red mixed with a mixture of blue tones.
Shape and Cutting Style: cushion.

Weight: carats 0,98
Measurements: 6,50 x 5,20 x 3,50.
Purity: totally clean to the naked eye.
Hue = dominant Color: Purple / (Italian: viola)

Tone = darkness or lightness of the Color: HIGH.

Color saturation = intensity or vividness of the hue: HIGH .

Trasparency: transparent

Brightness: HIGH

Origin: Sri Lanka.

COLORS OF SAPPHIRE
Sapphire is generally known as a blue gemstone but surprisingly it comes in a wide range of colors and quality variations.
Sapphires that are not blue are known as fancy sapphires, and may be any color—except red (which is a ruby). The fancy sapphire colors are: pink, orange, yellow, green, purple, and violet.

BLUE SAPPHIRE
Color has the greatest influence on a sapphire’s value, and preferred sapphires have strong to vivid color saturation. The most valued blue sapphires are velvety blue to violetish blue, in medium to medium-dark tones. Sapphires with these qualities command the highest prices per carat. Less valuable blue sapphires might also be grayish, too light, or too dark.
© Gemological Institute of America - GIA

Gemstone color can be described in terms of hue, saturation, and tone. Hue is commonly understood as the "color" of the gemstone. Saturation refers to the vividness or brightness of the hue, and tone is the lightness to darkness of the hue.
Blue sapphire exists in various mixtures of its primary blue color and secondary hues, various tonal levels of shades and at various levels of saturation.
Blue sapphires are evaluated based upon the purity of their blue hue. Violet and green are the most common secondary hues found in blue sapphires. The highest prices are paid for gems that are pure blue and of vivid saturation. Gems that are of lower saturation, or are too dark or too light in tone are of less value.

*The descriptive criteria of this product were suggested by openai.com, leader in artificial intelligence.

Il colore delle pietre preziose può essere descritto in termini di tonalità, saturazione e tono. La tonalitá é comunemente intesa come il "colore" della pietra preziosa. La saturazione si riferisce alla vivacitá o alla luminositá della tonalitá, mentre il tono é la luminositá o l'oscurità della tonalitá. Lo zaffiro blu esiste in varie miscele del suo colore blu primario e tonalitá secondarie, vari livelli tonali di sfumature e a vari livelli di saturazione. Gli zaffiri blu vengono valutati in base alla purezza della loro tonalitá blu. Il viola e il verde sono le tonalitá secondarie più comuni che si trovano negli zaffiri blu. I prezzi più alti vengono pagati per le gemme di puro blu e di vivida saturazione. Le gemme di saturazione inferiore o di tono troppo scuro o troppo chiaro hanno meno valore.