| History and Legend The name comes from the latin rubeus meaning `red. Because of its beauty and rarity, the greeks called it the mother of all gemstones. Aristotle wrote: `One of them is red like blood and is called rubinus. This is the best one of all.`The Romans called it`a flower among stones.`It is said that the ruby combines Eros, sensual love, and agape, spiritual love, and is therefore divine love in crystallized form. In the Middle Ages ruby was used as protection against the plague. If the color became darker, the wearer fled to another place in order to protect himself against infection, only returning home when the stone became lighter again. INFORMATION ON SIMULANT AND LAB STONES A Simulant stone has the same color and appearance of the natural stone but has DIFFERENT chemical elements, hardness and crystal structure as the natural stones. Synthetic or Lab stones have the SAME chemical elements, color, hardness and crystal structure as a natural stone but it is created in man made conditions (laboratory) I prefer lab stones because they look exactly like natural ones with much better quality and once you have it mounted in a piece of jewellery it is difficult to tell it from a natural stone. The lab stone is also enviroment safe because it is not extrated from the ground by miners which usually do not have much respect for nature. I have all 3 type listed in my ebay store and they are identified by Simulant, Lab (Synthetic) and Natural. See link to store:
http://stores.ebay.com/XYZ-Stones If you have any additional questions or concerns let me know.
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