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They built furnaces to make rubies.
Muslim mineralogists polished emeralds, rubies and carnelians with powdered emery — and 16th-century Arabic manuscripts illustrate high-temperature furnaces and sealed crucibles used to manufacture artificial rubies and sapphires.
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