How to Select the Best Natural Amber ?

Real amber gives the impression of soft, warm, exudes luster; and many synthetics feels heavier, colder. Amber is formed over the lemma it does not have to experience some perfect process, such as with bubbles, debris, cracks. If an amber necklace, each bead are very similar and transparent or amber containing an insect is very complete, it is very suspicious. Amber generally have beautiful lotus leaf scales, from a different point of view it has a different feel. Fake amber transparency is generally not high, scales issue die off, different angles are similar scene, the lack of amber aura. Fake amber scales and patterns are mostly injection, so most of the same, the market is the most common red scales.

Amber is actually the geological age of plant and resin through petrochemical products, 4,000 million years ago fossil pine resin is an entity preserved fossils.

Its main ingredient is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and a small amount of sulfur, hardness 2-3, the proportion of 1.05-1.1, melting at 150c-180c, ignition 250c-375c. Amber, pearls and coral for the three organic gemstones.

Amber is amorphous, irregular mass, its size is determined by the number of pounds of fine particles to heavy chunks. Gloss resin raw material, the resin was polished sheen to nearly shiny glass.

Hardness only 2-2.5. Can be easily cut with a knife, poor toughness, crack was conchoidal.

Transparent amber specific gravity of about 1.05 to 1.09, turbid amber containing bubbles, the proportion of up to 1.0. Amber refractive index varies slightly, but is usually closer to 1.54, as low as 1.539, up to 1.545.

Because Amber is an amorphous substance, it is isotropic, no cleavage, no pleochroism, refractive also unparalleled. According to the lack of toughness, powder inclusions, oil sheen, glass fracture, and the ability to non-high polished, you can identify it belongs resinous amber.

Amber often have inclusions, such as insects, seeds and other foreign matter, are hardened rosin previously captured. Germans called amber burning stone, because it burns at very low temperatures.