What is the main component of corundum?
Corundum is mainly used in advanced grinding materials, watches and precision mechanical bearing materials. A ruby based artificial crystal used as a laser emitting material. Ruby and sapphire are corundum minerals. Except for the starlight effect, only translucent transparent and vivid corundum can be used as gems. The red is called ruby, while the other tones of corundum are commercially referred to as sapphires.
The name of corundum originates from India and is the name of mineralogy. There are three main variants of corundum Al2O3, which are alpha -Al2O3, beta -Al2O3 and gamma -Al2O3 respectively. Corundum is second only to diamond.
Corundum is the main component of Al2O3, often containing trace impurities such as Cr, Ti, Fe, V and so on.
