According to records, yellow agate is called "agate" because its original stone shape is similar to that of horse brain. There are records of agate deeds in both the Old Testament and Buddhist classics. In the east, it is one of the seven treasures. Agate is regarded as a gem or handicraft because of its rich color and aesthetic feeling.
Agate has fat or waxy luster, translucent, conchoidal fracture. The hardness is 7-7.5, and the texture is hard and wearable. There are many kinds of agates, such as striped agate, moss agate, water bile agate, cut agate and so on. Agate is one of the jades with wide distribution, tough texture, bright color and beautiful decoration in nature.
Mineralogy belongs to chalcedony, which is a kind of chalcedony with different colors and annular distribution. Generally, colloidal silica is gradually filled to the center along the peripheral walls of caves or voids in rocks, forming concentric layered or parallel layered blocks. Generally translucent to opaque, the hardness is 6.5 to 7 degrees, the specific gravity is 2.55 to 2.9 1, and the refractive index is 1.535 to 1.539. Agate can be formed in all strata of geological history, whether igneous or sedimentary.
Beeswax is beeswax, a variety of amber, and opaque or translucent amber is called beeswax. Beeswax is amorphous. Some tissues are loose, and beeswax without other minerals can float in water (the word amber in English comes from Arabic, which means floating in water).
Beeswax is one of the most amazing jewels in nature. There are different opinions on its causes. About the formation of beeswax, various researchers have provided more than 30 opinions. One of them is the most authoritative: beeswax is formed by the contact of fat juice of conifers such as pine trees and maple trees buried deep underground with air, water, soil and other minerals in Eocene geological age. It has been tens of millions to hundreds of millions of years.
The difference between yellow agate and beeswax
1. has different properties. Yellow agate is also a kind of agate, a common jade and a kind of chalcedony. Beeswax is opaque amber, a resin fossil and a precious organic gem.
2. The weight is different. Yellow agate is much heavier than beeswax, so it can be clearly distinguished in your hand. Beeswax has proved to be the lightest of all known gems, and there is no one.
3. Different hardness. The hardness of the yellow agate is very high, and the glass is used to paddle back and forth on the surface of the agate, leaving no trace. The hardness of beeswax is very low, and glass is not needed. If you scratch the surface of beeswax by hand, you will leave scratches on the surface.