How to identify the authenticity of the crystal
How to identify the authenticity of the crystal
The growth process of natural crystal is extremely complicated. During the formation process, it is often affected by the environment. There are always some impurities in the crystal. When looking at the sun or under the light, you can see faint, uniform and small horizontal stripes or catkin-like shapes. substance. The imitation natural crystals are mostly smelted with inferior crystal slag and glass slag, processed and polished, colored and imitated. The crystals are often accompanied by bubbles, without uniform stripes and catkin-like substances.
Through the feeling
cool and icy is the sticking point of natural crystal, even in the dog days of hot summer, when you touch the natural crystal with your hands or lick the surface of the natural crystal with your tongue, you will feel cool and refreshing. Fake natural crystal, there is no cool feeling.
Check with a magnifying glass
Use a ten times magnifying glass to check under transmitted light, and those who can find bubbles can basically be classified as pseudocrystals.
Lighting and hardness effects
Natural crystal can reflect magnificent color and luster in sunlight, and smooth texture. Fake crystals cannot. Natural crystal has high hardness, and you can scratch it gently on the jewelry with gravel without leaving traces; if there are streaks, most of them are glass crystal or plastic crystal products.
Professional instrument
Check with a polarizer
turn 360 degrees under the polarizer, the natural crystal has four bright and four dark changes, and the fake crystal does not change.
Test with a thermal conductivity meter
adjust the thermal conductivity meter to green 4 grids to test gems, natural crystals can rise to yellow 2 grids, while fake crystals do not rise, and when the area is large, it rises to yellow 1 grid.
Check with hair
put the crystal on a hair, the human eye can see the double shadow of the hair through the crystal, it is a natural crystal, mainly because the crystal has birefringence.
Finally, Blingrong reminds everyone that if you encounter crystals that are difficult to judge the authenticity of when purchasing, it is best not to buy them. Or buy on a relatively compliant large platform, the product has an appraisal certificate and after-sales guarantee.
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