The easiest way to identify the authenticity of crystals

See: natural crystal in the formation process, often affected by the environment always contains some impurities, when observing the sun, you can see a faint uniform fine horizontal stripe or catkins substance.

Tongue licking: Even on dog days in the hot summer, licking the surface of the natural crystal with your tongue gives you a cold and cool feeling. Fake crystals, there is no cooling feeling.

Illumination: Natural crystals are placed vertically in the sun, giving off a beautiful brilliance no matter which angle you look at it. Fake crystals cannot.

Hardness: Natural crystal has high hardness, and it will not leave traces if you gently scratch it on the jewelry with a broken stone; If there are streaks, it is a fake crystal.

Check with a polarizer: Rotate 360 degrees under the polarizer and have four bright and four dark changes are natural crystals, and those that do not change are fake crystals.

The methods of distinguishing the authenticity of the crystal include color, light, hardness, line drawing, etc.

1. Look at the color.

Natural crystals tend to be uneven in color, accompanied by bands of color, and synthetic crystals have no vitality in color.

2. Look at the light.

Natural crystals are placed vertically in the sunlight and give off beautiful brilliance no matter which angle you look at, while fake crystals cannot.

3. Look at the hardness.

Natural crystal is hard, with a crushed stone on the jewelry lightly, will not leave traces, if there are streaks, it is a fake crystal.

4. Line drawing method.

Draw a line on the paper and let the crystal pass through the straight line, if there is a double line, it proves that it is a natural crystal.

5. Look at the inclusions.

Natural crystals generally have flocculent substances or needlepoint-like inclusions, while synthetic crystals do not have this characteristic.

Classification of crystals

1. Crystalline type.

Usually we see a cluster of crystals generated by a number of hexagonal crystal pillars (hexagonal crystal system), which belongs to crystalline varieties, such as white crystal, amethyst, citrine, pink quartz, hair crystal, tiger's eye, etc.

2. Aphrocrystals.

The appearance of cryptocrystalline crystals is piece-by-piece, not in a hexagonal crystal cluster, but they are also hexagonal crystal system. However, we cannot observe their hexagonal crystals with the naked eye, because the crystals are so small that they can only be seen with the help of a microscope. This type of crystal is very smooth because there is a "hydrated silica" between the crystals, and agate belongs to this category.

3. Special category.

This kind of crystal is very different from ordinary crystals, and it is difficult to classify it as a manifest crystal or a hidden crystal, so it is classified as a special category, such as skeeton crystal (backbone crystal) with strange crystals, and phantom crystal (phantom crystal) with landscape and star patterns in crystals.