“…Long time ago, Hautefeuille and Perrey, starting from a stoichiometric oxide mixture and using a flux method, were successful in synthesizing the first emerald single crystals (emerald is a colored variety of the mineral beryl ‐ nominally A l 2 B e 3 ( S i 6 O 18 ))‐ where the typical green color is due to trace amounts of Cr in the structure, substituting for Al at the octahedral sites) . The syntheses were done using the ‘flux method’, whereby a stoichiometric mixture of Be, Al, and Si oxides, doped with Cr, was kept at 800°C for 15days in a Pt crucible, with LiMo 4 to decrease the melting temperature of the system.…”