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After color the principal factor affecting a gemstone is clarity, the clearer the gemstone appears and the less visible flaws it contains the more valuable it becomes.

Transparent clarity Ruby is very rare. The reason for this is that the mineral chromium that gives a Ruby its color, is also responsible for causing a multitude of fissures and tiny irregularities inside the corundum crystal as it forms.

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Inclusions are common in Ruby and do not affect the quality, unless they drastically reduce the transparency of the gem, or are positioned in the center of its table. In fact the case for inclusions in a Ruby runs quite to the contrary, with inclusions acting like a fingerprint affirming its unique and genuine individual personality.

Indeed, two light phenomenon particular to the Ruby, and for which it is renowned owe their existence to the presence of ‘Silk’ Rutile inclusions:

• Top quality Ruby is valued for its ‘Pleochroic’ effect where the gemstone changes color intensity in relation to a light source. In Ruby's case this is especially noticeable under the ultraviolet rays of direct sunlight that give the gem an added fluorescence. Pleochroism is defined as a body color effect, where by ‘Different body colors are seen in different directions of the gems body.’

• Gem quality Ruby sometimes exhibits a star effect known as ‘Asterism’, this effect is enhanced when a gemstone is cut and polished ‘En Cabochon’: a dome cut with a flat bottom. The ‘Asterism’ effect is caused by two or more sets of tiny parallel inclusions, known as ‘Rutile’ or ‘Silk’, running the internal length of the gem. These inclusions intersect at differing angles with each other, causing the reflected light to form a star like formation across the gem's face.

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A Ruby possesses an ‘Adamantine’ to ‘Vitreous luster’ meaning that regardless of clarity or cut it will exhibit a bright steely luster.

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