How to distinguish the authenticity of jade

Jade is a kind of jewelry that we often wear in our daily life. Many people have such jewelry. We also buy jade in our daily life, and the price of jade ranges from high to low. However, it is usually not easy for us to distinguish the authenticity of jade when buying it. This requires certain professional knowledge. However, if we can learn certain knowledge, it will be helpful for distinguishing the authenticity. Let us learn about it below.

1. Look at the crystal transparency. Real jade has stronger transparency and oily luster.

2. Listen, the sound of real jade is clear and crisp, otherwise the sound is dull and muffled;

3. Test: when real jade is scratched on glass, scratches will be left on the glass, but the jade itself will not be damaged at all.

4. Common fake jades include plastic, colored glass, marble, electroplated fake jade, synthetic jade made of jade powder, crystal and salt water, and jade imitated with glass. There are different counterfeiting methods, and the means of identification are also different. Plastic is lighter than jade, has less hardness, and is generally easier to identify. The coloring is also easy to distinguish. As long as you check it under light or sunlight, you will see a lot of bubbles inside the glass.

5. What is more difficult to distinguish is electroplated fake jade. This is a product that has been electroplated to give low-quality jade a beautiful emerald green appearance, which can easily be mistaken for real jade. At this time, you need to observe carefully. If there are some small cracks with green and blue on it, it is fake jade. Because electroplating leaves cracks, experts call them "spider claws". Some people also say that if you place fake electroplated jade in hot oil, the electroplating color will fade away, returning to its original appearance.

6. Synthetic jade made of jade powder, crystal and salt water is an imitation of dark old pit jade. The identification method is very simple, that is, their specific gravities are different. The specific gravity of natural jade is 3.3-3.4, while that of artificial synthetic jade is only 2.8. You can tell the authenticity by weighing it with your hand or using a scale.

7. Jade articles imitated with glass look whiter and more lustrous than jade. The ancients said: "If jade is as good as glass, it must be of high quality." That is, white jade must be as good as glass to be considered high quality. It can be seen that glass and jade are difficult to distinguish. However, true and false are different after all. In terms of color, white jade often has a bluish tint and is rarely pure white, while glass is a uniform, pure white. In terms of the nature of jade, jade is warm, smooth and delicate, like fat and cream. Although glass is also warm, it cannot avoid a gleam in its luster. White jade is a natural product, and it is difficult for its texture to be completely uniform, with jade veins and jade flowers inside. Glass is artificially made and does not have the above-mentioned phenomena. The white jade is solid and has no bubbles to be found. No matter how well the glass is processed, there will often be bubbles and air holes exposed. If you understand these points, you will no longer mistake glass products for jade.

Through the above introduction, we know how to distinguish the authenticity of jade when buying jade. Generally, jade with bubbles is fake. When we buy jade in our daily life, if we want to buy high-quality jade, we must pay attention to whether there is a certificate proving that the jade is grade A. Generally, high-end jade shops only sell grade A jade.