The Color Sapphire

By:  Camila Farah

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Heat treatments have become common in recent years as a way of improving color as the beauty of a sapphire is judged by the richness and intensity of its color. The most valuable blue sapphires have a slight violet or purple hue to them this deepens the blue color. Most people will know sapphire as the beautiful blue gemstone that adorns the rings of celebrities and royals all over the world.