In recent years, amber beeswax quickly seized the jewelry market with its unique charm and was favored for a time. Beeswax is a kind of amber, opaque or translucent. Friction produces electrostatic charge, which can adsorb paper, iron filings and other small items. Some of them are still charged with static electricity, which makes them feel like "pinching their hands". Beeswax is a non-renewable gem, which is rare and valuable for collection. At the same time, beeswax has a strong aesthetic feeling and can be made into decorations, symbolizing eternal lovers. Because some materials are beautiful in appearance, many people use them for decoration. It is also used for pleasure, beauty, disease prevention and treatment, and self-cultivation.

Selection of beeswax

1: Look at the color.

Yellow, red, blue, cyan, white, red, black, purple, green and orange are all common basic colors in the universe. Among them, yellow, white and red are common, and chicken oil yellow is the top grade.

2. Look at this texture

Beeswax is formed by further fossilization of amber, so the texture of beeswax is translucent to slightly transparent, while the texture of amber is completely transparent. High-quality beeswax should have a slightly transparent overall feature, which is called "all wax". So pay special attention.

Step 3 look at the appearance

High-quality beeswax ornaments should have no cracks and impurities in appearance, at the same time, the processing technology should be in place, and the polishing and pore channels should be perfect. Even old wax is a top grade with few bumps.

Common fake beeswax

1: recycled amber

Regenerated amber is to heat and melt some waste natural amber residue and powder, then add some compounds to mix and color, and then press it into a large piece of amber with high pressure. The second generation of beeswax pressed by beeswax fragments is also beeswax in essence, but its value is extremely low. It is characterized by gray lines, many variegated colors, irregular and scattered textures, stiff transition between textures and obvious blockiness.

2. Artificial amber

Bakelite, celluloid and even acrylic are often used to imitate amber, but the proportion is too heavy, which will sink in saturated salt water, while the 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 from the false, but they don't lose their flavor when rubbed or pricked with red-hot needles, but they will give off a faint flavor. If these small pieces are heated slowly, bakelite will give off a strong electric carbon sour taste, and celluloid will give off a camphor smell.

3: Copal fat

Copa gum is a modern natural resin, because it is not long enough to be converted into resin after tens of millions of years of pressure and hot melting, so it can't be called amber. 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 is easy to melt when heated, so it is often added to modern sandflies to make worms. 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 of beeswax

There are salt water test, salt heat test and knife cutting needle test to identify the authenticity of beeswax, but these identification methods may damage precious amber, so they are rarely used.

Visual inspection and air bubbles are the main methods to identify inlaid amber. Amber usually has beautiful scales of lotus leaves. From different angles, there are different feelings and different degrees of refraction, emitting spiritual light. Bubbles in amber are mostly round, while bubbles in pressed amber are mostly long and flat. 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.

The most suitable and direct method for novices is to use purple light. Natural Baltic beeswax will reflect blue-green fluorescence under purple light, except that ash will reflect some purple light due to its low density. If the beads reflect purple light after being irradiated by purple light, they are undoubtedly plastic beads.

The texture of beeswax is very light. If we hold the real thing in our hands, we will have a warm feeling and even feel its texture. Some genuine products, if we rub them with our hands again, will give off a faint pine fragrance. After wearing it, the body will slowly absorb it, and it will run through the whole body through blood, which can relieve symptoms such as rheumatic bone pain, nasal sensitivity, stomach pain, high blood pressure and skin sensitivity, and enjoy the reputation of "Star of the Earth".

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