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  2. List of sapphires by size - Wikipedia

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    Ruspoli Sapphire: 136.9 carats (27.38 g) Stuart Sapphire: Sri Lanka 104 carats (20.8 g) Blue Tower of London: Bismarck Sapphire: Myanmar: 98.56 carats (19.712 g) Table Blue National Museum of Natural History, Washington James J. Hill Sapphire: 22.66 carats (4.532 g) Cornflower National Museum of Natural History, Washington

  3. Sapphire - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Petra Christian University - Wikipedia

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    Petra Christian University. /  7.339472°S 112.737528°E  / -7.339472; 112.737528. Petra Christian University, commonly abbreviated as PCU ( Indonesian: Universitas Kristen Petra) is a major private Christian university the oldest and largest in Indonesia, located in Wonocolo District in Surabaya, East Java - Indonesia.

  5. SAPHIRE - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Sapphire Retail - Wikipedia

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    Clothing, accessories. Parent. Sapphire Textile. Website. sapphireonline .pk. Sapphire Retail is a clothing retailer. [2] It is a whole-owned subsidiary of public limited company Sapphire Textile. [1] The retailer is based in Lahore, Pakistan.

  7. SAPPHIRE (health care) - Wikipedia

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    SAPPHIRE (health care) The Situational Awareness and Preparedness for Public Health Incidences and Reasoning Engines (SAPPHIRE) is a semantics -based health information system capable of tracking and evaluating situations and occurrences that may affect public health. It was developed in 2004 by Dr. Parsa Mirhaji at the University of Texas ...

  8. Star of India (gem) - Wikipedia

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    Star of India. The Star of India is a 563.35- carat (112.67 g) star sapphire, one of the largest such gems in the world. [1] [a] It is almost flawless and is unusual in that it has stars on both sides of the stone. The greyish-blue gem was mined in Sri Lanka [3] and is housed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City .

  9. Eye color - Wikipedia

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    Eye color. Eye color is a polygenic phenotypic trait determined by two factors: the pigmentation of the eye 's iris [1] [2] and the frequency-dependence of the scattering of light by the turbid medium in the stroma of the iris. [3] : 9. In humans, the pigmentation of the iris varies from light brown to black, depending on the concentration of ...