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An uncut, rough yellow sapphire found at the Spokane Sapphire Mine near Helena, Montana. Sapphire is one of the two gem-varieties of corundum, the other being ruby (defined as corundum in a shade of red). Although blue is the best-known sapphire color, they occur in other colors, including gray and black, and also can be colorless.
Sapphire's products are based on AMD graphics processing units, and both AMD and Intel motherboard chipset technology. The company is the largest supplier of AMD-based video cards in the world. Sapphire was the first company to release a video card with a high definition multimedia interface connector.
The Logan Sapphire brooch, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. The Logan Sapphire is a 422.98-carat (84.596 g) sapphire from Sri Lanka.One of the largest blue faceted sapphires in the world, it was owned by Sir Victor Sassoon and then purchased by M. Robert Guggenheim as a gift for his wife, Rebecca Pollard Guggenheim, who donated the sapphire to the Smithsonian Institution in ...
Sapphire Textile (Urdu: سفائر ٹیکسٹائل), also known as Sapphire Group, is a Pakistani vertically integrated textile manufacturer, producing cotton yarn, fabric, and finished garments. It is based in Lahore, Pakistan. History. Sapphire's origins goes back to a leather business founded by Haji Muhammad Din in Dhaka.
SAPHIRE is a probabilistic risk and reliability assessment software tool. SAPHIRE stands for Systems Analysis Programs for Hands-on Integrated Reliability Evaluations. The system was developed for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) by the Idaho National Laboratory . Development began in the mid-1980s when the NRC began exploring two ...
Istanbul Sapphire, or Sapphire, is a skyscraper located in the central business district of Levent in Istanbul, Turkey . It was Istanbul's and Turkey's tallest skyscraper between 2010 and 2016, and the 4th tallest building in Europe when its construction was completed in 2010. [3] Sapphire rises 54 floors above ground level, and has an above ...
Sapphire is a saturated shade of blue, referring to the gemstone of the same name. Sapphire gems most commonly occur in a range of blue shades , although they can come in many different colors. Other names for variations of the color sapphire are blue sapphire or sapphire blue , shown below.
Ramona Lofton (born August 4, 1950), better known by her pen name Sapphire, is an American author and performance poet. Early life [ edit ] Ramona Lofton was born in Fort Ord , California, [1] one of four children of an Army couple who relocated within the United States and abroad.