Synthetic Sapphire Ball is 99.99% pure Al2O3 and is clear and colorless. Sapphire ball is an anistrophic crystal, hexagonal system, composed of unicrystalline alpha aluminum oxide, essentially 100% pure.
Mechanical applications for precision sapphire balls and hemispheres include: bearings, valves, pumps, flow meters, metrology instrumentation, medical devices, probes.
Optical applications for precision sapphire balls and hemispheres include: lenses, fiber optics, bar code readers, medical devices.
| Diameter range: | 1mm – 12,7 mm |
| Grades: | ISO 3290 G10-G40 |
| Hardness according to Vickers: | < 1800 (HV10) |
| Density: | 3,990 g/cm³ |