Question 2: How many kinds of beeswax are there? How to distinguish true and false beeswax, as an organic treasure, is very different from inorganic treasures in chemical composition and atomic structure, but there are many similarities in jewelry characteristics. From the gloss point of view, beeswax is mostly wax resin (turpentine) luster, but there are also bright glass luster (glass surface beeswax), metal luster (gold surface beeswax) and mercury luster (pure black beeswax). The luster of jewelry is related to the way of light reflection and the degree of surface polishing. The same is true of beeswax, such as black wax and aquamarine blue. Only after a high degree of polishing can the surface of mercury shine, otherwise it will be dull.
0 1. salt water test method: the density of amber is between 1.05- 1. 10. In 1: 4 (salt: water) saturated brine, amber, light plastic and resin can float, while ordinary plastic, glass, acrylic and bakelite sink. Friendly reminder: this method is limited to naked amber. Amber with a lot of impurities in its body will sink if the salt water concentration is not heavy enough.
02. Hot test: The needle is burned in an inconspicuous place of amber, with a faint pine fragrance. Bakelite and plastic smell pungent and stick to needles. Friendly reminder: Too hot will leave black spots on the amber surface, which will affect the appearance.
03. Needle-picking test with a knife: Cutting amber with a paper cutter will pulverize, resin will fall off in pieces, plastic will roll up, and glass will not be cut. When you flush amber with a hard needle at an angle of 20-30 degrees from the horizontal line, you will feel explosive and there will be extremely fine powder residue. If it is plastic or other substances with different hardness, it will not stick, or it will feel sticky, or even stick in. Friendly reminder: this experiment will damage your jewelry. If you pick out the cut part, you can only find a professional to repair it. It is best not to do it or do it less, so as not to cause harm to amber.
04. Nail polish lotion: Wipe the amber surface repeatedly with a cotton swab, with no obvious change. Plastics, pressure and amber have not changed, but resin and Coba butter will be corroded because they are not petrified, resulting in sticking pits. Rosin will melt slowly when it is soaked in liquid medicine. Friendly reminder: some amber has a layer of polishing substance, which will turn into white spots when wiped with drugs, but this layer of white spots can be scraped off with nail shells to expose the surface of amber, and there will be no change when rubbed with drugs. The liquid medicine still has 18%-20% solubility in amber, and the surface may become foggy after soaking for a long time)
05. Feel: Amber is a neutral organic gem, which is not very hot in summer and not too cold in winter, so it is very gentle. Use glass or chalcedony to prevent feeling cold and heavy.
06. Observing scales with eyes: This is the most important method to identify inlaid amber. Amber usually has beautiful scales of lotus leaves, which have different feelings from different angles, have different refraction and emit spiritual light. The transparency of fake amber is generally not high, and the scales emit dead light, which is similar from different angles and lacks the aura of amber. The scales and patterns in fake amber are mostly injection molded, so most of them are the same. The most common one on the market is the red scale.
07. Eyebubbles: The bubbles in amber are mostly round, and the bubbles in pressed amber are mostly long and flat.
08. Ultraviolet irradiation: Put amber under the money detector, it will have fluorescence, light green, green, blue, white and so on. Amber and Jin Po have the most obvious discoloration, while blood amber and beeswax have no obvious discoloration. The more transparent it is, the more obvious it is, and the plastic will not change color. Friendly reminder: don't test under strong light or the effect will not be obvious.
9. Aroma: Amber has only a faint smell, and it can hardly be smelled when rubbed, or it can't be smelled at all, but amber with skin will produce fragrance when rubbed, and Xiangpo will produce fragrance when rubbed. Amber only gives off a loose fragrance when it burns. Friendly reminder: there is no rubbing smell on the stall, so it is better to just watch and not buy.
10. Sound test: Amber beads that are not inlaid will make a soft and slightly dull sound when rubbed gently in the hand, and the sound will be crisp if they are plastic or resin.
1 1. Friction with static electricity: Amber can attract small pieces of paper after rubbing on clothes. (Friendly reminder: except copy paper)
12. Cost appraisal: Take it to CMA Jewelry Appraisal Center to measure refractive index, density, etc.
Question 3: How to distinguish the true and false beeswax? First, the simplest one can scrape a small amount of powder on the edge of the inner hole of one of them and ignite it with a strong lighter without affecting the appearance. If it is beeswax, because it is rich in minerals, it will have a continuous red (gold) light after burning, otherwise the plastic will melt. This is the most popular and convenient identification method.
Second, polishing also helps to identify whether it is really beeswax. The method is to polish beeswax on a polishing cloth rotating at 10,000 revolutions per minute. If it is genuine, a bright reflective surface will immediately appear on the surface, otherwise it will melt in the polishing cloth and be clear and easy to see.
Thirdly, there are two subjective methods, namely tactile discrimination and sensory discrimination. In the absence of a lighter or polishing cloth, hand feeling is also a reliable method (provided that you are familiar with beeswax). Because beeswax is rich in minerals and has a special magnetic field, it has a special feeling in the palm of your hand, especially for practitioners who practice yoga. The sensory identification of beeswax is to observe the phenomena of silk grain, refraction, flower explosion and ice crack of beeswax, especially when the beeswax is worn for a long time, such as silk grain changing direction.
Question 4: I bought a beeswax pendant today and want to tell the truth! Look at this picture. It's beautiful. You can see if there is any fluorescence reaction under ultraviolet radiation. Judging from the back piece of leather, the problem is not big.
Question 5: How to distinguish between true and false beeswax?
The only way for international beeswax experts to judge genuine beeswax is to turn red, black or star when exposed to heat.
Due to the preciousness and rarity of real beeswax, a large number of imitations mainly made of plastics and new resins have appeared on the market. The most direct way to identify beeswax is to wear it. After wearing it for a while, it changed. This is because people's body temperature, pH and even different gas fields have different effects on noble beeswax. Simply put, it is the influence of surface oxidation on noble beeswax. If it is an imitation, there will be no such change.
In the actual collection appreciation, playmaker summed up the identification method of 12, so that you can identify the authenticity:
0 1. salt water test method: the density of amber is between 1.05- 1. 10. In 1: 4 (salt: water) saturated brine, amber, light plastic and resin can float, while ordinary plastic, glass, acrylic and bakelite sink. Friendly reminder: this method is limited to naked amber. Amber with a lot of impurities in its body will sink if the salt water concentration is not heavy enough.
02. Hot test: The needle is burned in an inconspicuous place of amber, with a faint pine fragrance. Bakelite and plastic smell pungent and stick to needles. Friendly reminder: Too hot will leave black spots on the amber surface, which will affect the appearance.
03. Needle-picking test with a knife: Cutting amber with a paper cutter will pulverize, resin will fall off in pieces, plastic will roll up, and glass will not be cut. When you flush amber with a hard needle at an angle of 20-30 degrees from the horizontal line, you will feel explosive and there will be extremely fine powder residue. If it is plastic or other substances with different hardness, it will not stick, or it will feel sticky, or even stick in. Friendly reminder: this experiment will damage your jewelry. If you pick out the cut part, you can only find a professional to repair it. It is best not to do it or do it less, so as not to cause harm to amber.
04. Nail polish lotion: Wipe the amber surface repeatedly with a cotton swab, with no obvious change. Plastics, pressure and amber have not changed, but resin and Coba butter will be corroded because they are not petrified, resulting in sticking pits. Rosin will melt slowly when it is soaked in liquid medicine. Friendly reminder: some amber has a layer of polishing substance, which will turn into white spots when wiped with drugs, but this layer of white spots can be scraped off with nail shells to expose the surface of amber, and there will be no change when rubbed with drugs. The liquid medicine still has 18%-20% solubility in amber, and the surface may become foggy after soaking for a long time)
05. Feel: Amber is a neutral organic gem, which is not very hot in summer and not too cold in winter, so it is very gentle. Use glass or chalcedony to prevent feeling cold and heavy.
06. Observing scales with eyes: This is the most important method to identify inlaid amber. Amber usually has beautiful scales of lotus leaves, which have different feelings from different angles, have different refraction and emit spiritual light. The transparency of fake amber is generally not high, and the scales emit dead light, which is similar from different angles and lacks the aura of amber. The scales and patterns in fake amber are mostly injection molded, so most of them are the same. The most common one on the market is the red scale.
07. Eyebubbles: The bubbles in amber are mostly round, and the bubbles in pressed amber are mostly long and flat.
08. Ultraviolet irradiation: Put amber under the money detector, it will have fluorescence, light green, green, blue, white and so on. Amber and Jin Po have the most obvious discoloration, while blood amber and beeswax have no obvious discoloration. The more transparent it is, the more obvious it is, and the plastic will not change color. Friendly reminder: don't test under strong light or the effect will not be obvious.
9. Aroma: Amber has only a faint smell, and it can hardly be smelled when rubbed, or it can't be smelled at all, but amber with skin will produce fragrance when rubbed, and Xiangpo will produce fragrance when rubbed. Amber only gives off a loose fragrance when it burns. Friendly reminder: there is no rubbing smell on the stall, so it is better to just watch and not buy.
10. Sound test: Amber beads that are not inlaid will make a soft and slightly dull sound when rubbed gently in the hand, and the sound will be crisp if they are plastic or resin.
1 1. Friction with static electricity: amber can attract small pieces of paper after rubbing on clothes. (Friendly reminder: except copy paper)
12. Cost appraisal: Take it to CMA Jewelry Appraisal Center to measure refractive index, density, etc.
The best test methods: visual inspection, ultraviolet irradiation, hand feeling and salt water. Other methods will do some harm to amber even if they are detected to be true. The above identification methods cannot be used alone, and various testing methods should be used to distinguish between true and false! ...& gt& gt
Question 6: What are the methods to identify true and false beeswax? Now the means of counterfeiting is too high, and the methods of salt water and smell are not reliable. For the average player, there is nothing too good to identify old beeswax. I suggest you find someone who understands. The new wax can be illuminated by the fluorescent flashlight of the money detector. Beeswax will emit white light after being irradiated. It looks like toffee, and the opalescent matte is opaque, which is quite different from the general surface reflection. It feels like the light emitted by the wax itself when it is excited. The color of the optimized beeswax is too uniform, and there is basically no white light after being irradiated by a fluorescent flashlight. Some pressed beeswax also has white light, but if you shine it with a strong flashlight, you will see that there are many granular filaments and slightly red filaments inside, because they are pressed into large pieces from small pieces. The texture of plastic products will be different. If you play with beeswax for a while and then touch the plastic, it will feel completely different. You will never learn unless you start to learn. I suggest you go to the antique market or a fixed store in the jewelry city, at least you won't buy plastic. Buy some small things under 10 g first, the price will not be too expensive, just play and you will understand.
Question 7: What is beeswax? How much is a gram of beeswax? How to identify the authenticity of beeswax? I asked a lot of questions at once! ! !
1) amber beeswax is a resin fossil formed tens of millions of years ago. People usually call transparent amber and opaque beeswax. They are the same substance. Amber amber is generally referred to as amber internationally.
2) Amber beeswax will have different prices according to the origin, color, year, size, shape and optimization. In China, beeswax is generally more expensive than amber. However, in fact, beeswax and amber are one substance. According to the origin, Lampard in Dominica is the most expensive. At least 500 yuan grams above the price. According to the color, the ones with few cracks are expensive, the ones with scenery are expensive, and the ones with insects are expensive. The price is 200-500 yuan. According to the year, the old beeswax is expensive and the new beeswax is cheap. New wax 100-200 yuan grams price transaction. A century-old beeswax, a gram of thousands of dollars, may not be met. In terms of size, the big one is of course expensive. 50g is good enough, and the price is 300-500 yuan. According to the shape, cylindrical beads are the most expensive, followed by round beads and carved beads. According to whether there is optimization or not, the pure nature without optimization is expensive and not worth collecting.
3) As for the identification of amber beeswax. There are many fakes and optimized products in the market, and the appraisal certificates are flying all over the sky. Now salt water and fluorescence can't tell the difference between true and false. Because the fake will float, as long as the phosphor is added, it will fluoresce. Distinguish true and false beeswax with your eyes and observe the lines inside, which are naturally flowing lines. It's fake. This is a stirring mode. It's flowing. Imagine the feeling of flow. Touch it with your hands, and the natural beeswax feels very astringent on your hands. Not as smooth as glass. And because it's a fossil, it won't stick to your hands for a long time. There will be no indentation when you press it with your nails. This is obviously different from Hubac resin. In a word, you can judge by your eyes, your hands and your heart.
If you have no experience, you can use hot acupuncture. See if it tastes plastic or loose. But it will damage the beeswax. You must think twice. Another way is to buy 200-mesh sandpaper and find a hidden place to wipe it a little. If it is genuine, it will have a special pine fragrance. Remember to polish with high mesh sandpaper after polishing. It won't leave too many marks.
The land of amber (Taobao) is pure natural amber beeswax in Denmark, without optimization.
Question 8: How to distinguish the authenticity of beeswax? Beeswax is a kind of amber, which is special because of its low transparency, and is not much different from crystal clear amber in essence. Beeswax is also slowly formed after thousands of years and has all the characteristics of resin fossils. Therefore, the method of identifying the authenticity of beeswax is roughly the same as that of identifying amber. While the amber market is booming, there are also many problems. The most acute problem is that there are more and more fake amber, and there is even the illusion that there are more fakes than genuine ones. Fake beeswax also has a lot of work. If you don't have the ability to identify the authenticity of beeswax, it is easy to lose money when choosing beeswax. What is common in the market is yellow beeswax. In addition to this kind of beeswax, there is a rare old beeswax. Old beeswax refers to beeswax objects with a history of hundreds of years. Because of the age, the amount of existence is very rare. After a long period of oxidation, the surface color of old beeswax becomes darker, and there are fine weathering lines on the surface, and the patina luster covers the weathering lines. Compared with ordinary beeswax, old beeswax is undoubtedly more attractive, and it is also the favorite of people who like collecting beeswax. Because beeswax is divided into ordinary beeswax and old beeswax, counterfeit products of these two kinds of beeswax often appear in the market. Both kinds of beeswax need to be carefully identified. So what? The authentication of common beeswax is the same as amber. Several common methods can identify those common counterfeit beeswax. One is the salt water experiment method, which puts beeswax into saturated salt water solution, and those sunken beeswax products are undoubtedly plastic products. The second is to observe the bubble method and observe the internal texture of beeswax with a magnifying glass. If there are obvious blood-like lines, it is undoubtedly a synthetic beeswax product. The third method is ether experiment, which drops ether solution on the surface of beeswax and then observes whether there is any change on the surface. If the viscosity and dissolution change, it is a resin product. There are two ways to identify the authenticity of old beeswax. First, transparency. Under natural conditions, synthetic old beeswax is opaque, while natural old beeswax is slightly transparent to opaque. Under the condition of backlight or strong light, the synthetic old beeswax is completely opaque and has no texture, while the natural old beeswax has obvious light transmission and can see the texture inside. Second, there are flaws. Synthetic old beeswax has erythema on its surface, which is scattered and smooth to the touch. The defects of natural old beeswax are often concentrated together, which has obvious dent feeling to the touch.
Question 9: Identify true and false beeswax necklaces. The beeswax chain is not a raw ore, but a synthetic one.
Method for identifying beeswax
1. The simplest thing is to prepare a purple light with a wavelength of 365, watch the fluorescence reaction, and distinguish between plastic and beeswax.
2. Then there is salt water, and the ratio of salt water is 1: 4. Fakes will sink, and natural beeswax will float.
3. Look at the feel, beeswax is a fossil formed by resin after tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years. Its specific gravity is particularly light, even lighter than the same volume of plastic. This imitation can distinguish glass from chalcedony.
4. Now the fake technology is so realistic that it can issue a national inspection certificate almost like natural beeswax.
As long as you can go abroad for inspection.
I also make beeswax. I hope I can help you.
Question 10: How can beeswax tell the truth from the false? It asks many questions at once! ! !
1) amber beeswax is a resin fossil formed tens of millions of years ago. People usually call transparent amber and opaque beeswax. They are the same substance. Amber amber is generally referred to as amber internationally.
2) Amber beeswax will have different prices according to the origin, color, year, size, shape and optimization. In China, beeswax is generally more expensive than amber. However, in fact, beeswax and amber are one substance. According to the origin, Lampard in Dominica is the most expensive. At least 500 yuan grams above the price. According to the color, the ones with few cracks are expensive, the ones with scenery are expensive, and the ones with insects are expensive. The price is 200-500 yuan. According to the year, the old beeswax is expensive and the new beeswax is cheap. New wax 100-200 yuan grams price transaction. A century-old beeswax, a gram of thousands of dollars, may not be met. In terms of size, the big one is of course expensive. 50g is good enough, and the price is 300-500 yuan. According to the shape, cylindrical beads are the most expensive, followed by round beads and carved beads. According to whether there is optimization or not, the pure nature without optimization is expensive and not worth collecting.
3) As for the identification of amber beeswax. There are many fakes and optimized products in the market, and the appraisal certificates are flying all over the sky. Now salt water and fluorescence can't tell the difference between true and false. Because the fake will float, as long as the phosphor is added, it will fluoresce. Distinguish true and false beeswax with your eyes and observe the lines inside, which are naturally flowing lines. It's fake. This is a stirring mode. It's flowing. Imagine the feeling of flow. Touch it with your hands, and the natural beeswax feels very astringent on your hands. Not as smooth as glass. And because it's a fossil, it won't stick to your hands for a long time. There will be no indentation when you press it with your nails. This is obviously different from Hubac resin. In a word, you can judge by your eyes, your hands and your heart.
If you have no experience, you can use hot acupuncture. See if it tastes plastic or loose. But it will damage the beeswax. You must think twice. Another way is to buy 200-mesh sandpaper and find a hidden place to wipe it a little. If it is genuine, it will have a special pine fragrance. Remember to polish with high mesh sandpaper after polishing. It won't leave too many marks.
The land of amber (Taobao) is pure natural amber beeswax in Denmark, without optimization.