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Project Sapphire. Project Sapphire was a successful 1994 covert operation of the United States government in cooperation with the Kazakhstan government to reduce the threat of nuclear proliferation by removing nuclear material from Kazakhstan as part of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, which was authorized by the Soviet Nuclear Threat ...
Sapphire, North Carolina. / 35.10694°N 83.00306°W / 35.10694; -83.00306. Sapphire is an unincorporated community in Transylvania County, North Carolina, United States. Sapphire is 8.5 miles (13.7 km) east of Cashiers. Sapphire has a post office with ZIP code 28774. [3] [4]
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.
The Star of Adam is an oval-shaped blue star sapphire, currently the largest star sapphire in the world. It weighs 1,404.49 carats (280.898 g; 9.9084 oz). Prior to its discovery in 2015, the Black Star of Queensland, weighing 733 carats (146.6 g), was the largest star sapphire gem in the world.
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 ...
St Edward's Sapphire is an octagonal rose-cut sapphire that forms part of the British Crown Jewels. Its history is older than any other gemstone in the royal collection. [2] The stone is thought to have been in the coronation ring of Edward the Confessor , known later as St Edward, who ascended the throne of England in 1042, twenty-four years ...
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 ...
Estimated value. Est. US$100 million. Serendipity Sapphire is the world's largest star sapphire cluster. It weighs 510 kilograms (2,600,000 carats). [1] It was found in Kahawatte in the Ratnapura District, Sri Lanka, in July 2021. Its worth is estimated to be up to US$100 million. [1]