Question 1: How to distinguish true amber from false amber? Identification of amber: 1. There is a simple and easy method to identify amber-salt water test. You can use a spoon to add one spoonful of salt and four spoons of water to the cup (one spoonful for one person to drink soup, please don't waste salt) and stir until the salt is completely melted. Natural amber will float on the water when put in a cup. If it's just a glass of water, amber will sink! Before doing this little experiment, you must remember to take off the "accessories" such as thread, buckle and hanging buckle. )

2. Friction with static electricity: Amber can attract small pieces of paper after rubbing on clothes.

3. Amber has almost no smell when rubbing hard (transparent amber such as Shepper and Jin Po is almost tasteless). ) Amber that produces fragrance when rubbed is called "Xiangpo". But no matter what kind of amber it is, when we punch holes, we can smell the fragrant pine fragrance.

4. Sound: Amber chains or beads without inlay will make a soft and slightly dull sound when gently rubbed in your hands. If the sound of plastic or resin is crisp. (There must be a contrast between the real goods and the fake goods to distinguish the difference in sound)

5. Visual inspection: This is a trick to identify true and false amber; The texture, color depth, transparency and refractive index of true amber will change with the observation angle and illumination. This feeling can't be found in any other substance. Amber is transparent but moist, unlike glass, crystal and diamond, which can be seen at a glance. Fake amber is either transparent or opaque, and the color is fake when it dies. Artificial fake amber is dazzling, and it will feel lifeless cold light. (This method does not use novices who have just come into contact with amber)

6. ultraviolet irradiation: put amber under the money detector, it will have fluorescence, light green, green, blue, white and so on. Plastic fake amber does not change color. (Harper's fluorescent effect is not obvious, but it will be obvious after wearing it for a while. )

7. Feel: Amber is a neutral gem, which is generally neither too cold nor too hot. Glass imitations will have a cold feeling. (This method does not use novices who have just come into contact with amber)

8. In addition, some customers may learn some fire needle methods, which are inaccurate and destructive and are not recommended.

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Identification method of amber: 0 1. Salt water test method: In the salt water of 1: 4 (salt: water), both resin and amber can float, while light plastic floats and ordinary plastic sinks. Note: Amber with insufficient salt water concentration will also sink. Mahjong at home is hollow and there is air floating on the water. 02. Hot test: burn the amber in an inconspicuous place (such as the small hole of the bead), which should be difficult to stab and have a faint pine fragrance. Plastic will smell and stick to the needle, and Copa grease or other resin can easily penetrate it. Note: Too hot will leave black spots on the surface of amber, which will make the bleached amber ugly. 03. Needle-picking test with a knife: amber will become powder when cut with a paper cutter, resin will fall off in pieces, and plastic will become rolled pieces. Punching holes with a hard needle at an angle of 30 degrees to the horizontal line will feel like a burst. Note: this test will damage your jewelry, so you can only find professionals to repair the cut parts. 04. Nail polish lotion: Wipe the amber surface repeatedly with a cotton swab, and there should be no 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. Note: 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 it will not 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 gem, which will not be very hot in summer or too cold in winter. The overall situation is relatively mild. Use glass or chalcedony to prevent cold feeling. 06. Observing scales: This is the most important method to identify silver inlaid amber. Amber generally has beautiful scales of lotus leaves. From different angles, it has different feelings and different refractions. 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: Most bubbles in amber are round, while most bubbles in pressed amber are long. 08. Cracked weathering pattern: the back of green beads is generally baked red or ... >>

Question 2: How many kinds of amber are there? How to identify? Amber type:

According to the different colors and characteristics of amber, the varieties of amber are divided into Jin Po, Xuepo, Insect Slope, Xiangpo, Shipo, Huapo, Shuipo, Mingpo, Wapo, Bee Slope and Korean Pine, among which there is no clear definition. For example, Worm and Lingpo should be considered as one kind, both of which refer to amber containing animal remains. Flower bud refers to amber that has been artificially exploded, among which it should be noted that the pressed amber flower is particularly fine, chaotic and the background is turbid. Beeswax refers to opaque amber, and the statement that "a thousand years of amber, a million years of beeswax" is false. Xiangpo refers to the beeswax with obvious fragrance after kneading, because the degree of treatment of beeswax is usually small, so the fragrance is rich. Water amber refers to amber containing water droplets, also called water amber. The value of amber is not high now, unless it is antiques, exquisite works of art or contains biological remains.

The economic value of amber depends on the purity, shape, size and color of insects. The color is strong and positive, and the impurities are less. Blue, green and blood red are the best colors, but at present, there are green amber in Dominica, Mexico and Fushun, China, and Baltic green amber is mostly caused by chemicals at medium and high temperatures. Transparent blood amber is mostly caused by high temperature baking, and natural blood amber will have visible inclusions. Usually, strong colors are usually accompanied by a small amount of visible impurities. There is a saying that tiny inclusions are the coloring factor of amber and also come from it. The most valuable variety is amber wrapped with insects, commonly known as "amber hidden bees", with clear insects, realistic shapes, large individuals and large numbers as the best.

Identification method:

Experiment: Natural amber is very light. If you put it (without any inlay) in water, it will sink to the bottom. But you don't have to worry. When you add dissolved concentrated salt water to it, when the salt concentration is greater than 1 4 (1 salt, 4 parts water), the real amber will float slowly, but the fake amber will not.

Sound: Amber chains or beads without inlay will make a soft and slightly dull sound when rubbed gently in your hands. If the sound of plastic or resin is crisp.

Incense: Amber rough stone, which has not been finely polished, can smell a faint and special fragrance after being rubbed by hand to generate heat. The fragrance of white beeswax is slightly heavier than other ordinary amber, so it is called "Xiangpo". Generally speaking, amber that has been polished or carved by hand smells bad when rubbed by hand.

Visual inspection: this is a trick to identify true and false amber; The texture, color depth, transparency and refractive index of true amber will change with the observation angle and illumination. This feeling can't be found in any other substance. Just as we distinguish between true and false people, for example, superb artists can create lifelike wax figures, and "confusing the false with the true" is just talk, and even the best wax figures can't escape our eyes. Amber is transparent but moist, unlike glass, crystal and diamond, which can be seen at a glance. Fake amber is either transparent or opaque, and the color is fake when it dies. Artificial fake amber is dazzling, and it will feel lifeless cold light.

Ultraviolet irradiation: put amber under the money detector, it will have fluorescence, light green, green, blue, white and so on. Plastic fake amber does not change color.

Friction with static electricity: Amber can attract small pieces of paper after rubbing on clothes.

Handle: it is a neutral gem, generally not too cold or too hot. Amber made of glass will feel colder.

Question 3: How to identify amber by salt water method?

Put the non-inlaid amber into the pre-dissolved concentrated brine with the density of 1.2g/cm3. Real amber will float slowly, but fake amber will not.

Listen to the sound

When there are no inlaid amber chains or beads in your hands, you will hear a soft and slightly dull sound. The amber sound of plastic or resin will be crisp.

Smelling incense method

Amber will have little or no smell when rubbed, or no smell at all. Amber, which produces fragrance when rubbed, is called Xiangpo. Real amber will give off a loose fragrance when it burns, but plastics or other imitations do not have this fragrance.

Ether experiment

Put a little ether on amber. If it feels sticky and dissolved after a few minutes, it is fake. Indeed, it is safe and sound after about 20-30 minutes in ether.

Acidity and alkalinity

Pure natural amber has considerable corrosion resistance. If it is some plastic imitation, it will melt in a strong acid-base liquid.

Hardness measurement

When the needle gently slants the back of amber at an angle of 20-30 degrees, we will feel a slight sense of violence and very fine powder residue. If it is plastic or other substances with different hardness, it will either stick, feel sticky or even stick inside.

Eight. Weight transfer method

If you put amber at your fingertips, you will find that real amber is much lighter than some fake amber.

Nine: feel method

Rub the surface of amber with your fingertips, and you will find that real amber will feel astringent and sticky, while fake amber will feel smoother.

visual observation

This is the trick to identify true and false amber; As long as you have more than three colors and like amber for more than three months, you can observe the authenticity of amber with your eyes.

(1) The texture, color depth, transparency and refractive index of true amber will change with the change of observation angle and illumination. This feeling can't be found in any other substance. Amber is transparent but very moist, unlike glass, crystal and diamond.

(2) Fake amber is either transparent or opaque, and the color is dead and fake. The artificial amber flowers in the fake amber are very dazzling, and you will feel the cold light without life.

(3) Therefore, if you have been exposed to amber for a long time, you can tell the truth by intuition.

Question 4: How to tell whether amber is good or bad? Urgent! ! Everyone has different eyes, and some like beeswax. Some people like Jingpo, while others abroad like Jingpo. The price is the same. As long as amber does not crack and has no impurities. The price depends on the size of the beads. The bigger the beads, the more expensive they are. 200 yuan is a fake, and the market price is above 600 yuan.

Question 5: How to tell whether amber is true or false? Synthetic products are expensive.

Amber is formed because turpentine condenses when it flows down the ground. After tens of millions of years of natural changes, it produces golden yellow or wine yellow transparency, with natural gas bubbles or other minerals and other sundries inside, and sometimes even insect carcasses or excrement. Now, even businessmen can put the dead bodies of mosquitoes, ants and other insects in the process of making artificial amber, so as to confuse the real with the fake. The way to distinguish is that insects and other sundries in natural amber should be three-dimensional, ecological and natural, with a feeling of struggle. Artificial insects are treated and crushed, and natural amber with insects is extremely rare and expensive.

However, at present, the natural colors of amber are rare red, orange, green, brown and even white besides the generally visible yellow.

Beeswax is also a kind of amber, but beeswax is opaque or translucent, which is different from amber, so it is often mistaken for two different gems. The color is different from translucent amber, which is opaque because of its high succinic acid content, so merchants call it beeswax, so the function of true beeswax is the same as that of amber. When beeswax is worn for a long time, succinic acid will gradually become transparent amber due to human body temperature.

How to tell true from false amber and beeswax

The identification method can put amber in completely saturated salt water (1: 5), and the real amber will float, otherwise it will sink. Another way is that amber and beeswax will produce a loose fragrance when burning, instead of the burnt smell of plastic. This is one of the identification methods. If it is not convenient to burn, you can pierce beeswax or amber with a fine needle after heating, and then pull it out while it is hot. If it produces the smell of black smoke and rosin, it is real amber. If it emits white smoke and produces a plastic smell, it can identify fake plastic synthesis. Besides, it will be fake amber when pulling out the needle, but it really won't.

Question 6: How to tell the authenticity of amber original stone? Because counterfeiters are constantly innovating, it is obviously not enough to look at amber in one way. Multiple analysis is needed, but amber counterfeiting is nothing more than plastic, waste suppression (also known as second-generation amber) and Coba. First, if it is placed in saturated salt water (water has completely melted the salt, and the salt can no longer be dissolved), true amber will float. If it doesn't float, it is to buy plastic; Secondly, the effect of ultraviolet fluorescent lamp depends on whether the color is natural; The third is the feel, amber is not as slippery as plastic; The fourth is to look at the lines in amber (because some of them are pressed by waste materials, and they also have amber characteristics such as saltwater floating, color change under ultraviolet fluorescence, hand feeling, etc., because their properties are the same as those of amber stone, but they are only pressed, but they cannot be called amber in this international standard). However, because each amber is formed in a different year, there will be veins on the edge when pressed; The fifth method is to scrape the surface gently with a knife, and the real amber will have granular debris jumping out (this method is more suitable for the original stone, because no merchant will let you scrape his finished product); The sixth is to smell with fire. Amber has the fragrance of rosin because it is formed by the flowing things of pine plants, but unlike the new rosin, the plastic will only have a pungent plastic smell (this also applies to the original stone).

Judging from your picture, it's not very clear and it's not true. You can communicate with me if you have any questions. This is just my humble opinion. I hope I can help you. Please forgive my mistake, hehe ~

Question 7: How to distinguish between old amber and new amber 1? Copa resin in New Zealand existed in large quantities in the market in history, which should arouse our attention to this resin. Even antique amber may still be Copa resin with a short formation time, rather than real amber;

2. Although the inclusion of animals or plants can provide many meaningful references for the identification of amber, for example, its morphological characteristics can tell us whether it is an imitation or not, whether it has been artificially suppressed or not, but the inclusion itself is not absolutely meaningful for the identification of amber;

3. Alcohol is indeed a very sensitive, cheap and convenient reagent for distinguishing amber from Barker resin. However, it is best to gently wipe the water droplets in an inconspicuous place as far as possible, otherwise the surface of the sample will become opaque. Therefore, special care should be taken when using this method to identify finished products;

4. The determination of general physical constants such as density, refractive index and fluorescence has no obvious effect on distinguishing amber from Barker imitation; 5. Infrared spectrum is a very useful method to accurately distinguish amber from Barker resin.

Question 8: How to identify amber beeswax? I have been engaged in amber beeswax processing for more than ten years, and I am very happy to explain the identification method of amber beeswax for you:

1, feeling. Neutral gem, not hot in summer, not cold in winter, warm feeling.

2. weight Slightly larger than water, it floats in saturated salt water, so the density is very light, so it doesn't press your hand.

3. Fluorescence reaction. Under the irradiation of purple light, there is fluorescence, such as light green, and different kinds of amber beeswax have different fluorescent colors.

4. Hot needle test. Stick it in with a hot needle, the genuine product has a faint fragrance, and the counterfeit products such as plastic have a bad smell. This method is destructive. If it is a finished product, don't try it.

The best way is to get the local jewelry and jade appraisal agency for testing.

Question 9: How to distinguish natural amber from second-generation amber? Thank you. Natural amber and second-generation amber are basically the same in chemical composition and physical properties, so it is not easy to distinguish them by general detection methods. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to distinguish nature from the second generation, which requires considerable experience.

Irregular lines in the vortex state can be observed in the transparent second-generation amber, also called "bloodshot radish", which can be used as the basis for naked eye identification. However, the opaque beeswax has a state of debris stirring, unnatural texture and regular trend. In addition, the gloss of suppressing beeswax is also worse. After playing on the hand plate for a period of time, you will find that the beads are a little black and filamentous. These dark wires (briquette and briquette, briquette and liquid boundary) will have a "astringent" feeling, for reference only!

Question 10: How can the original amber stone identify the quality of amber? What is the standard? Generally speaking, amber rough stone skin is smooth and smooth, polished evenly without obvious cracks, which is a good material. But amber, especially mine amber and Ukrainian black and red amber, is often invisible, so they are all gambling. Moreover, amber from different places of origin has some special skins, and such amber is still a relatively precious variety. For example, the willow material of Fushun amber, the brain material of the Baltic Sea, and the green pepper skin of Dominica.