How to identify fake old beeswax in the market
Looking forward to the identification of old beeswax
The identification of old beeswax has become a cliche, and most wax friends have unique opinions. Today, I will use the ancestor's "Wang Wen" to talk about how to identify old beeswax.
Looking forward to the identification of old beeswax
Hope, as the name implies, is hope. How to look at it, look at those elements, is the key.
Look at the lines first. The grain of old beeswax is also called moire. The significance of moire is to identify whether it is original wax, second generation or slurry. Here you need to use tools to highlight the flashlight, and the flashlight function on the mobile phone can also be used. In operation, you must transmit the old beeswax from all angles, and you can't let go of the clues, just look at the light transmission map.
The word moire vividly expresses the lines of the old wax, such as white clouds under the blue sky, which are unpredictable and characterized by unrestrained, enchanting and agile, and irregular. It is completely ingenious and elegant in essence!
In order to understand the pattern of the second generation, we must first understand its manufacturing process. The second generation is not the upgraded version 2.0 of the old beeswax, but in order to reduce the cost, scraps and scraps are used to reach the melting point by artificial heating, and after stirring, the scraps are fully melted and shaped. The second-generation beeswax produced in this way will leave regular stirring patterns, which can be divided into three types according to the image: spiral pattern, feather pattern, smooth pattern and many bubbles.
Slurry beeswax, a kind of second-generation beeswax, can be said to be version 2.0 of the second-generation beeswax. Its processing technology is relatively fine, and basically no mixed lines can be seen. It looks like flower wax, so popular that many people make holes, including many businesses that have been in business for many years. Then the question is coming, isn't there a flaw? There must be. Fake will never be true. When you carefully observe the slurry with naked eyes, you will see bloodshot or punctate small particles and bubbles distributed all over the body in good light, which is more obvious in light. This method is suitable for identifying whether artificial beeswax is used.
Identify the smell of old beeswax
Smell, as the name implies, is to feel the smell of old beeswax through smell.
Beeswax and amber are of the same ancestry. Opaque (high succinic acid content) amber is called beeswax, and its formation principle has been learned in our primary school textbooks. About 65 million years ago in the Cretaceous period, that is, the last period of the Middle Ages, fat trees such as pine trees and maple trees were harmed by nature and secreted a lot of resin out of the self-healing instinct of plants. After crustal changes, it has been buried underground for tens of millions of years, forming beeswax. In short, rubbing the surface of beeswax by hand makes it warm (the principle of molecular thermal motion in physics), thus emitting its own smell. Because of the different tree species, there are many smells of beeswax, such as pine, fruit, nectar and so on. The richness of fragrance is directly proportional to Dachuan wax. When the fake beeswax is rubbed, it will give off an unpleasant smell or other pungent smell, some of which are artificially perfumed, and it will be very strong if it is not rubbed. Please make up the feeling of inferior air freshener. This method is suitable for identifying the authenticity of materials.
Several problems about identification of old beeswax
Q, is in the process of buying old beeswax, ask questions to merchants and their answers.
Generally speaking, judging whether a business is reliable or not can be known through a few questions. Hearing you ask some small white questions, he always comes with his mouth open, which always has magical health care effects. The seven treasures of Buddhism, which improve geomantic omen, ward off evil spirits and keep peace, are full of stories, and most of the legendary stories of friends and brothers wearing beeswax are unreliable; Ask him about the cake year in Western Asia, and he will tell you that in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, some experts saw Barabara in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, such as Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. People's foreign things have something to do with China's dynasty, and most of them are the old routine of selling blind jobs. They never change their words, and they are definitely unreliable. Merchants are not reliable. Can you count on his things to be reliable? If you are immersed in his story, it is not far from taking medicine!
Cutting identification of old beeswax
Cut, which means to feel the pulse, is a metaphor for rubbing the skin of old beeswax with your hand and feeling the feel.
Let's talk about the temperature first. It doesn't feel cold in winter and it doesn't feel hot in summer. Very warm, suitable for all seasons. When you rub your fingers, you will have a unique feeling, which is obviously different from jade or plastic products. Because the density of beeswax is mostly between 1.03 and 1. 10, and it floats in 4: 1 salt water (there are a few in clear water), it will not press your hand like jade, nor will it be very light.
The identification methods of old beeswax were summarized from a large number of specimens when I was playing with wax. I hope I can help my friends, and don't stay on the basic methods such as salt water, fluorescence, fire therapy and acupuncture on the Internet.