How To Identify The Better Collection And Purchase Of Turquoise

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The continuous development of turquoise, which was unknown 10 years ago, has now become a "red man" in the field of gem collection, and its investment and collection team is also expanding.

How to identify Turquoise? Identification of turquoise can be seen at the following points:

The texture is commonly known as iron wire, with variegated colors, dark spots and textures.

The quality of turquoise is more compact, which is conducive to polishing; poor quality porous, easy to lose water and fade after sunlight.

Turquoise blue is colored by copper oxidation, and green is caused by iron.

Modified Turquoise

Wax injection, wax injection can make up for the holes in the surface and deepen the color.

Some also use liquid dyes to mimic the spider web texture on natural turquoise.

Injection molding, turquoise injection is a very common method of treatment, also known as Turquoise stabilization treatment. Injection sometimes adds colorants, which can make up for holes and reduce the scattering of surface light, so that turquoise displays moderate blue tone, and can also improve durability.

The stable treated turquoise has good color and low relative density. Hot needle test will cause the plastic to precipitate.

Synthetic Turquoise

Synthetic turquoise, a natural turquoise ingredient, has no natural spirit.

Synthetic Turquoise usually has the following kinds: the synthetic process of turquoise by the Jill method has adopted the process of making ceramics.

Blue particles can be seen on the shallow substrate when magnified.

Dyed hydroxyapatite is a cheap imitation of turquoise, and its simple identification is pink under Charles filter.

Glass can also be used to imitate turquoise, but the refractive index values of the two are obviously different.

Vortexes and bubbles can also be seen in glass.