In the Metroid series, the Goron's ruby appears in some rooms and the Gyorg enemy appears frozen and eaten by the space pirates.

Where the space of the paintings appears flat and perplexing, a balance is found in multiple entry points and equal attention to every detail whether it is the king's action, a servant's gesture or the ruby red of a bowl of pomegranates.

Celestian often appears as a tall, lean man of middle years, wearing black garments set with his symbol, often worked in jewels ( diamond, amethyst, sapphire, emerald, topaz, jacinth and ruby ) that shine like distant suns.

Trivalent chromium at low concentration is the source of the red fluorescence of ruby.

For example, ruby is the red variety of the species corundum, while any other color of corundum is considered sapphire.

A ruby is a red gemstone.

In the children's book and movie, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a pair of red ruby slippers play a key role in the plot.

After the 18th century the word ruby was only used for the red gem variety of the mineral corundum and the word spinel became used.

Chromium impurities in corundum yield a red tint, and the resultant gemstone is called a ruby.

The sapphire is one of the three gem-varieties of corundum, the other two being ruby – defined as corundum in a shade of red — and padparadscha — a pinkish orange variety.

However, the finest red spinels can have a value approaching that of the average ruby.

In ruby the primary hue must be red.

The finest ruby is best described as being a vivid medium-dark toned red.

Set a purplish-red ruby in yellow and the yellow neutralizes its complement blue leaving the stone appearing to be pure red in the setting.

Frimy and Auguste Verneuil manufactured artificial ruby by fusing BaF < sub > 2 </ sub > and Al < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 3 </ sub > with a little Chromium at red heat.

Maiman used a solid-state light-pumped synthetic ruby to produce red laser light at a wavelength of 694 nanometers ( nm ).

Trade terms such as balas ruby for red spinel and rubellite for red tourmaline can mislead unsuspecting buyers.

During the reign of the later Sassanid king Khosrau I ( 531 – 579 ), a gift from an Indian king ( possibly a Maukhari Dynasty king of Kannauj ) included a chess game with sixteen pieces of emerald and sixteen of ruby ( green vs. red ).

His descriptions range from the simple (" gold and brown ") to the highly detailed (" blue-violet rocks, speckled with little grey cubes, cobalt blue, deep Prussian blue, highlighted by a bit of violet-purple, gold, red, ruby, and stars of mauve, black and white.

Some specimens have a red iridescence within the gray-black crystals ; these are called " ruby sphalerite.

To create the ruby slippers, the shoes were dyed red, then burgundy sequined organza overlays were attached to each shoe's upper and heel.

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Other favorite things include the colors red and black, the flower white Casablancas, the gemstone ruby, little lizards, and pandas and dislikes include canned asparagus, men in general, and television.

It originally meant the color of the Kermes dye produced from a scale insect, Kermes vermilio, but the name is now also used as a generic term for slightly bluish-red colors that are between red and rose ; besides crimson itself, these colors include carmine, raspberry, ruddy, ruby, amaranth, and cerise.

Canada, in " crimson ", Great Britain ( and Newfoundland ) are " red ", British Raj | India is " ruby ", Australia " scarlet ", New Zealand " garnet ", and Ireland " emerald " according to War Plan Red-Other parts of the British Empire are pink ( not part of the plan )

In a May 2005, discussion on the newsgroup comp. lang. ruby, Matsumoto attempted to distance Ruby from POLA, explaining that because any design choice will be surprising to someone, he uses a personal standard in evaluating surprise.

Local residents nicknamed the town " The Gem of the Yukon ", because it is located along the Yukon River and also the name resembles that of a ruby gemstone.

Dorothy's shoes ( made of silver in the book, not the familiar ruby that is depicted in the movie ) are interpreted to symbolize using free silver instead of the gold standard ( the road of yellow brick ) because the shortage of gold precipitated the Panic of 1893.

* Example of anglicism by phonetic borrowing: use of expression "< ruby >< rb > 巴士 </ rp ></ ruby >" ( instead of " 公共汽車 " or " 公共汽车 ") for " bus " in Hong Kong and Macao because of similarity in pronunciations.

Rita does not like Roddy initially, but ends up taking him along, while her arch enemy The Toad ( Ian McKellen ) sends his rat henchmen, Spike ( Andy Serkis ) and Whitey ( Bill Nighy ), after her because she had stolen back her father's prized ruby a long time ago.

In modern usage the precious stones are diamond, ruby, sapphire and emerald, with all other gemstones being semi-precious.

A considerable portion of all sapphire and ruby is treated with a variety of heat treatments to improve both color and clarity.

Andreuccio da Perugia comes to Naples to buy horses, meets with three serious adventures in one night, comes safe out of them all, and returns home with a ruby.

According to Rhys Thomas in his Los Angeles Times article, " all the ruby slippers are between Size 5 and 6, varying between B and D widths.

After discovering an injured Scaphognathus named Razzamult, Gideon discovers that the city is planning to launch an attack on the mainland and conquer all of Dinotopia and that they have stolen the ruby sunstone from the pterosaur home of Highnest.

These six appeared along with the gemstone dragons ( crystal dragon, onyx dragon, jade dragon, sapphire dragon, ruby dragon and amber dragon ), and the dragon rulers ( Pearl ( the Moon Dragon ), Ruler of all Chaotic Dragons ; Diamond ( the Star Dragon ), Ruler of all Lawful Dragons ; Opal ( the Sun Dragon ), Ruler of all Neutral Dragons ; and the Great One, Ruler of All Dragonkind ) in the Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia ( 1991 ).

Adornments range from plain collars, to decorative stitching, to studs of all kinds to gems to ruby domes and gemocites etc.

The senior rugby, cricket and hockey teams have all toured abroad in recent years, including separate hockey and cricket tours to South Africa, as well as a recent ruby tour to Australia and The Far East.

Copper-based " red goldstone " aventurine glass exists on a structural continuum with transparent red copper ruby glass and opaque " sealing wax " purpurin glass, all of which are striking glasses, the reddish colors of which are created by colloidal copper.

Four gate towers exist, all crowned with ruby stars, they are Spasskaya, Borovitskaya, Troitskaya and Nikolskaya.

So, one can easily tell the difference between cubic zirconia and the other two ; however, there is overlap between ruby and glass.

In the episode " Das Boots " of The Suite Life on Deck, London tries to save herself and other characters who are trapped aboard a submarine by putting on a pair of ruby slippers, and saying " There's no place like home.

The king marvels at what Sinbad tells him of the great Haroun al-Rashid, and asks that he take a present back to Baghdad on his behalf, a cup carved from a single ruby, with other gifts including a bed made from the skin of the serpent that swallowed the elephant (" and whoso sitteth upon it never sickeneth "), and " a hundred thousand miskals of Sindh lign-aloesa ", and a slave-girl " like a shining moon ".

Although the balls are most often made of metal, they can be made of other materials, or in some specialized cases out of artificial ruby.

Herzog, along with other members of the crew, has a cameo as one of the men carrying a load of ruby glass to the river.

Aside from increasing processor speed, video RAM, and hard-disk capacity, Apple replaced Bondi blue with new colors — initially in January 1999 with blueberry, strawberry, tangerine, grape, and lime ; later other colors, such as graphite, ruby, sage, snow, and indigo, " Blue Dalmatian " and " Flower Power " patterns.

* Pennisetum setaceum AGM & P. setaceum ' Rubrum ' AGM ( red fountain grass, African fountain grass, fountain grass, purple fountain grass, ruby grass )-& several other cultivars

These color grading systems are more similar to those used for other colored gemstones, such as ruby, sapphire, or emerald, than they are to the system used for white diamonds.

: For cardinal gems other than Diamond, ie amethyst, emerald, ruby & sapphire see: Category: Gemstone mines

A khamsin is described as being a jewel-bright desert lizard which stands erect like a man – about as tall as a man ’ s arm is long – with an inordinately large cranium with scales that reflected firelight in bands of shining colors, those colors primarily being topaz and ruby, but including other colors of notation.

Among the other precious and semi-precious stones set in the crown are an emerald, a ruby, a topaz, an alexandrite and a white opal.

Mogok and other villages nearby have been famous since ancient times for its gemstones, especially ruby and sapphire, but semi-precious stones such as lapis lazuli, garnet, moonstone, peridot and chrysoberyl are also found.

Another short program not seen on most other stations was a topical program called ; " Lips ," featuring a pair of ruby red lips in front of a black background, teasing the days stories or issues, thought to be inspired by The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

She and her stepson, Edward, Prince of Wales, the future king Edward II ( who was two years younger than her ), also became fond of each other: he once made her a gift of an expensive ruby and gold ring, and she on one occasion rescued many of the Prince's friends from the wrath of the King.

This method is also used to synthetically grow a variety of crystals: YAG ( Yttrium Aluminum Garnet ) in white, blue, pink and several other shades, ruby, chrysoberyl and, most and foremost, alexandrite.