Why are rubies red and emeralds green? Their colors come from the same metal in their atomic structure
The colors of rubies and emeralds are so striking that they define shades of red and green—ruby red and emerald green. But ...
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Why are rubies red, emeralds green?
One feature of compounds made with transition metals is their intense colour. There are many examples in nature, including ...
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Why are rubies red and emeralds green? Their colors come from the same metal in their atomic structure
When this highly ordered structure extends in all three dimensions, the mineral becomes a crystal. With a theory developed by physicists in the 1920s called crystal field theory, scientists can ...
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Why are rubies red and emeralds green? Their colors come from the same metal in their atomic structure
Crystal field theory makes predictions about how a transition metal ion’s structure is affected by the other atoms surrounding it. Rubies are mainly made up of the mineral corundum, which is ...