How to identify natural amber? A friend who knows said, thank you.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. fragrance: amber has only a faint smell when it is rubbed, or it can't be smelled at all. Amber that produces fragrance when rubbed is called "Xiangpo". Generally, amber only emits a loose fragrance when it burns.

4. Visual inspection: This is a trick to identify true and false amber; As long as you are familiar with it-you will naturally have this ability. 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. As long as you have your favorite amber with more than three colors and more than three months, no one can fool you. Amber is transparent but very moist, unlike glass, crystal and diamond. Fake amber is either transparent or opaque, and the color is fake when it dies. The artificial amber flowers made from fake amber are dazzling, and you will feel the cold light without life. After a long period of exposure to amber, you can tell the truth by intuition. Just like identifying a true person from a false one-no matter how good the wax figure is, I believe you will easily recognize that it is not a real person.

5. Hardness test: When you gently stab the back of amber with a needle at an angle of 20-30 degrees (where you don't think it will hurt amber), there will be a slight sense of violence and a very fine powder residue. If it is plastic or other substances with different hardness, it will either stick, feel sticky or even stick inside.