{"id":14160,"date":"2023-08-19T04:09:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T22:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14160"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:50:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T05:20:37","slug":"what-is-sapphire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-sapphire\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Sapphire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Sapphire:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The name SAPPHIRE is derived from the Latin word \u2018<strong>Saphirus<\/strong>\u2019 and the Greek word \u2018Sapherios\u2019 both the words mean blue.<\/li>\n<li>The scientific name of sapphire <strong>is called corundum<\/strong>. It is made up of aluminium oxide (Al203) mineral.<\/li>\n<li>Corundum comes in all types of colours like red, pink, yellow, orange and violet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Sapphire is found <strong>all over the world<\/strong> \u2013SriLanka, Burma,Thailand and Australia. Ceylon is still a top source for natural sapphire.<\/li>\n<li>In India the reserves\/resources of corundum are found in association with kyanite and sillimanite in <strong>Assam, Meghalaya and Maharashtra<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It occurs in syenites and ultrabasic rocks in <strong>Telangana.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The total reserves\/resources of sapphire was estimated at 450 kg, all of which is placed under &#8216;Remaining Resources&#8217; category and is located in <strong>Jammu &amp; Kashmir.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Sapphire has emerged as a versatile material useful to a range of industries in many varied applications <strong>including LEDs, optical and Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFICS).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Why is Kashmir sapphire famous?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Kashmir sapphires are valued as significantly as they are because they contain only the best specimens.<\/li>\n<li>These specimens are <strong>noted to have a superior cornflower blue tint<\/strong> with a sleepy quality to them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits?<\/h3>\n<p>Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFICs) are specialized integrated circuits (ICs) designed to work with radio frequency signals. They are used in various wireless communication systems, including cell phones, Wi-Fi devices, Bluetooth devices, satellite communication systems, and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Within-next-year%2C-Sapphire-mines-will-be-auctioned-in-scientific-way-to-give-boost-to-local-economy%3A-LG-Manoj-Sinha&amp;id=466357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Within next year, Sapphire mines will be auctioned in scientific way to give boost to local economy: LG Manoj Sinha<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sapphire  is made up of aluminium oxide (Al203) mineral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}