Did you buy the wrong cinnabar?

There are many kinds of cinnabar with uneven quality. The good is gem-grade crystal cinnabar, but the bad is artificial, powdery and reduced sand. Today we will talk about the types of cinnabar, so as to better understand cinnabar.

Cinnabar is divided into two categories: one is natural cinnabar and the other is cinnabar handicraft.

1. Natural cinnabar includes crystals and minerals.

1. Original cinnabar mine: refers to the naturally occurring cinnabar mine, with rough texture and a certain amount of miscellaneous grains, and the color gradation is not obvious. Many surfaces are white or gray and black, as well as other minerals.

2. Crystal cinnabar: It is a crystal growing on calcite and quartzite, also known as soft ruby, which is the best of cinnabar. It is round and flawless, crystal clear and completely transparent under natural light.

Second, the handicraft cinnabar

1, reduced cinnabar: artificial cinnabar, chemically reduced by sulfur and mercury at high temperature. Its surface is fine and free of impurities, and there are silver lines inside under the irradiation of light, which is darker than the original ore.

2. Natural cinnabar pressing: refers to pressing natural cinnabar into particles or fine powder, such as purple sand and red sand. They are also natural cinnabar in nature, but in the process of making handicrafts, a small amount of amber powder and bad oxygen resin glue will be added for curing and molding, so the content of cinnabar is not as high as that of natural raw ore cinnabar, and its purity is not as pure as that of natural raw ore cinnabar, but it is high in hardness, beautiful and easy to carve into finished products.