I made my own rubies!

I finally grew a real gem-sized ruby at home! This project has taken me over a year but I feel like I'm only just getting started. Get your own home-made rubies here! https://store.gemsofscience.com/products/my-home-grown-ruby-crystals-flux-gems-made-by-me Pixel art animations by me (pixel by pixel in Aseprite) Thanks again to @styropyro for letting me borrow his laser! Stay tuned, we have some other projects in the works! Special thanks to my friends @FrankieSmileShow @LightningOnDemand @glockenspielsdesk , Baen, Storby and international musical superstar @mguybowman for providing voiceovers! Figures borrowed from Beginner's Guide to Flux Crystal Growth by Makoto Tachibana, Flux Growth of Hexagonal Bipyramidal Ruby Crystals (Oishi et al 2004), Growth of Hexagonal Bipyramidal Ruby Crystals by the Evaporation of a Li2O–MoO3 Flux (Teshima et al 2005), Spherulite-shaped cristobalite by fused silica devitrification (Malo et al 2011), Investigation of low-pressure cold-gas dynamic spraying of polyamide-12 (PA12) on steel surfaces (Tillmann et al 2019) And thanks to Dr. Allen Glazner who taught me about crystal thermal cycling!