Examples include calcium aluminate, sapphire, and alumina-zirconia. Calcium aluminate (CaAlO 3) is an aluminate ceramic used in refractory cements and shapes, as well as synthetic slag additions for ...
Sapphire Sapphire is a high-purity and high-density, single-crystalline form of aluminum oxide, which may contain chromia ... Ruby is chromium-doped sapphire used in optical filters and laser rods.
In the lab Researchers at TU Wien employed noncontact atomic force microscopy and computational modelling to determine the structure of the aluminium oxide surface. (Courtesy ... as a chemically ...