How to identify amber

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

3. Aroma: Amber rough stone that has not been finely polished can smell a faint special fragrance after it is 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.

4, 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.

5, 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.

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

7, feel: neutral gems, generally not too cold or too hot. Amber made of glass will feel colder.