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 2: 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 little or no smell when it is rubbed hard (transparent amber such as Sherper and Jin Po is basically 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 that are not inlaid 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 3: How to distinguish the authenticity of the original amber stone? Because counterfeiters keep innovating, it is obviously not enough to see whether amber is true by one method, and 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 4: How to distinguish the authenticity of amber, and how to judge whether it is natural or artificial fake amber. Regenerated amber: natural amber particles (powder) are heated and melted, usually mixed with linseed oil for color matching, and then pressed into large pieces of amber by high pressure. In this process, bubbles will be mixed in. The bubbles in natural amber are generally round, but the bubbles in recycled amber are usually squashed and become long strips. You can see the turbid granular structure under the magnifying glass. The interior of the recycled amber is a syrup-like stirring structure, and sometimes it contains unmelted substances. By magnifying observation, we can see that the reconstructed amber has a granular structure, and on the polished surface, we can see that the adjacent fragments present uneven boundaries due to different hardness. The latest vacuum hot-pressed amber is very realistic, and it is difficult for the naked eye to distinguish between true and false. Synthetic fake amber: Bakelite, cellophane and even acrylic are often used to fake amber, but its specific gravity is too heavy, and it will sink in saturated salt water, while real amber will float. There is a kind of plastic called polystyrene, whose specific gravity and refractive index are quite close to those of real amber. The above methods can't tell the truth, but there is no fragrance when rubbed with a red-hot needle, and these synthetic materials will smell when synthesized. When the small pieces are heated slowly, bakelite gives off a strong electric carbon sour taste, and celluloid gives off a camphor smell. Kopal: This is a modern natural resin, so it can't be called amber, because it is not long enough and hasn't been transformed by pressure and heat for tens of millions of years. Modern technology usually hardens its skin and makes it look like real amber. If you drop a drop of ether, it will dissolve and produce spots, but real amber will not. It melts easily when heated, so it is often added to modern captured insects to make insects. In fact, this kind of resin, which is not petrified for thousands of years, often contains all kinds of insects, which are very similar to real insects in appearance and insect posture. Identification method 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 needle in an inconspicuous place (such as the small holes of beads), with a faint pine fragrance or no taste. Plastic will smell and stick to needles; The immature coba butter or rosin needle will easily melt and insert into it, and give off a fragrance. It takes a very experienced professional to feel the difficulty of needle insertion. Note: Improper operation will leave black spots on the surface of amber and make beautiful 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 experiment will damage your jewelry. If you pick out the cut part, you can only find a professional to repair it. The master almost destroyed a feathered witch, and picked it too hard to make flowers. 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 black. Tortoise cracks can be seen with the naked eye or under a magnifying glass. 09. Ultraviolet irradiation: The easiest way is to put amber under the money detector. Amber will have fluorescence, light green, green, blue, white and so on. Plastic will not change color. 10. Friction with static electricity: Amber can attract small pieces of paper after rubbing on clothes. 1 1. Expensive appraisal: take it to CMA Jewelry Appraisal Center to measure the refractive index, and so on ... >>

Question 5: How to identify amber? How to tell the true from the false? We can't use a single method to identify amber, but we need to use a variety of methods for comprehensive testing. The simple and easy-to-operate method is as follows:

1, feel: amber is a neutral gem, and it is gentle at all times. It won't be too hot in summer and too cold in winter. Imitation with glass or chalcedony will feel cold.

2. Cloud observation: This method requires collectors to have enough experience. Because the moire of imitation amber is formed by pouring it into the mold, it is single and regular, and some even deliberately stir the ripples. The lines in beeswax are formed by resin slowly oozing out and accumulating over time. They are natural and diverse.

3, bead hole: it is difficult to ensure that each amber bead hole is the same, carefully check the small mouth that may collapse when drilling, sometimes leaving white powdery amber powder, and the imitation hole is almost exactly the same.

4. Specific gravity test: The specific gravity of amber is about 1.04 ~ 1. 10, which sinks in clear water and floats in salt water. We dissolve 1 teaspoon of salt in 240 ml of water (about L: 4) and stir the salt water until it is completely dissolved. Both resin and amber can float in salt water, while lightweight plastics can float, and plastics and other synthetic products will sink. This method is only for amber without inlay, but now many light plastics can float in salt water, so floating in salt water is not certain to be amber. Need to cooperate with other observations.

5. Fluorescence reaction: Copa grease hardly changes color under ultraviolet short wave, or only shows weak green light, while Baltic amber and Dominican amber show blue or sky blue fluorescence under ultraviolet light, regardless of primary colors. The simplest and most convenient ultraviolet light source is the ultraviolet money detector used to check money. However, it should be noted that amber with skin, old amber and optimized blood amber will have strong fluorescence reaction only after grinding or re-grinding. Some synthetic resin products will show light green and light blue fluorescence under ultraviolet irradiation, which may cause confusion for beginners.

There are other reliable methods, which are not easy to operate and too abstract, such as ruler observation, solubility test, polarizer test and so on, so I won't list them one by one. Remind parents that if you want to understand the appraisal, you need to read more books and study more. With more experience, it is naturally easy to identify.

Question 6: How to tell whether amber is true or false? Amber is light and has low hardness. You can see the mark by scraping with your nails.

There are also some leaves in amber, because amber is a fossil gem and a resin secreted by ancient pine trees for thousands of years.

Feel, real amber will be a little sticky when touched by hand, either it is fake or not.

Question 7: How to identify the authenticity of natural amber beeswax stone? How to identify the authenticity of amber (beeswax) original stone;

1. Specific gravity test: the density of amber is between 1.05- 1. 10, so in the salt water of 1: 4, the genuine product floats and the counterfeit product sinks (no other substances are embedded).

Second, the needle burning test: when the needle is heated to red and scalded on the surface of amber, it will be fragrant and black, and the plastic will partially melt and stick to the needle.

Third, ethanol test: the surface of nail polish can be tested with polishing water. True amber will not react, while resin will corrode.

Fourth, sound test: amber beads without inlay will make a very soft and slightly dull sound when they are gently rubbed in their hands. If they are plastic or resin, the sound is crisp.

The resins most similar to amber are hard resin and rosin.

1. Hard resin is a semi-fossil resin with a very new geological age, similar to amber. Drop a small drop of ether on the surface of hard resin and rub it by hand. The hard resin will soften and stick together, but amber will not change.

2. Rosin is a kind of resin without geological function, which is light yellow, opaque, light and very hard. It can be kneaded into powder by hand, and there are many oil-drop bubbles on the surface, while the lake is smooth and translucent, and the inclusions are common. The animal and plant contents and textures in amber are visible to the naked eye.

Different from recycling amber.

Some small pieces of lake debris that cannot be directly used to make jewelry are sintered at appropriate temperature and pressure to form larger amber, which is called recycled amber. Regenerated amber has pure color, high transparency and uneven surface. After amplification, it is granular structure, syrup-like stirring structure, and sometimes contains unmelted substances. However, natural amber has a smooth surface, contains bubbles, is mostly round, and usually has animal and plant debris.

Difference from imitation

Imitations of amber are plastic, glass and chalcedony.

1. Plastic plastics are very similar to amber in color, warmth retention and electrical properties, but the density is very different from amber.

All plastics sink except polystyrene, because their density is higher than that of saturated saline (1.2), and the density of amber is 1.08, so it can float in saturated saline.

The plastic outside the sample can be cut, and it will peel off when it is cut on one side of the sample with a knife, while the lake has a small shell-like gap because of brittleness.

With hot acupuncture, plastic will have various smells, while amber will have a loose smell.

2. Glass and chalcedony

Glass and chalcedony can imitate amber in color, but their properties are quite different from amber. Their specific gravity is much heavier than amber, and they all have a cool feeling, which can be distinguished by weighing them with your hands. In addition, glass and chalcedony cannot be fixed by hot acupuncture.

Question 8: 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 distinguish between true 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 9: How to identify the authenticity of amber bracelets? 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 10: How to distinguish the authenticity of amber bracelets Due to the outstanding economic value and collection value of amber products, artificial amber made of resin materials has appeared in the market to pretend to be natural amber. There are five common identification methods:

One is to test the specific gravity. When amber is put into 1: 4 salt water, natural amber will float and counterfeit will sink. The density of amber is between 1.05- 1. 10, and the texture is very light.

The second is to burn with a needle. Burn amber skin with a red-hot needle. Natural amber will turn black, but it will not stick to needles and has a loose fragrance. Fakes stick to needles and draw wires, and even smell of plastic.

The third is to listen to the sound. Natural amber beads without inlay will make a soft and slightly dull sound when rubbed gently in your hands, and the falsetto is crisp.

The fourth is to look at the luster. Natural amber is naturally moist, the luster and texture of the fake are cold and hard, and the things wrapped inside will have a stiff feeling. Natural amber has different angles, different shades of color and different refraction under sunlight, while fake amber has no such effect. When amber is placed under the money detector and irradiated with ultraviolet rays, natural amber will emit green, blue and white fluorescence, while the counterfeit will not change color.

The fifth is to test with ether. Wipe the amber surface with nail polish lotion containing ether. Natural amber does not react, and fake amber will be corroded.

Besides, there are some other tricks, such as rubbing amber on clothes. The real thing can attract small pieces of paper, but the fake thing won't. Natural amber still smells of rosin when punched.