How to identify authenticity of cinnabar jewelry

Natural ghost cinnabar is a granular or blocky collection, and it is a piece of blocks of different sizes or fines. The larger surface of the pieces is dark red, small or granular ones are bright red, irregular thin pieces are red and bright, bright like mirrors, not dyeing hands, diamond luster, translucent. Crispy, hardness of 2-2.5, the proportion of 8.09-8.20, strip marks vermilion to brown-red.
This cinnabar is purple -red irregular block or chocolate granular and powder. Involved in strong acids, can solve sodium sulfide and king water.
The identification of genuine cinnabar:
1. Heat in the closed mouth test tube and become a black vulcanized pump; adding sodium carbonate to the co -thermal heating, it becomes a metal mercury ball.
2. The sulfur dioxide gas and metal mercury balls were produced in the opening tube.
3, after soaking with hydrochloric acid, the smooth copper tablets are wiped on, and the surface of the copper piece is silver white.
The reserves of China
The wealth of mercury mine in my country, cumulative proven reserves ranks 3rd in the world. In ancient times, the place names were also called Basha, Yisha, and step sand. After the Song Dynasty, the main production and sales market was in Chenzhou, Hunan, and because of the color, it was called cinnabar, Dan sand, Zhenzhu, Chidan, Dan Su, etc. In the 1980s, it was adopted to intersperse double crystal cream in the Ping Mining Area of ​​Wanshan Military Mine Mine in Guizhou, my country, with pure color and complete shape. The prototype of cinnamon in mineral stamps.
The ghost Xianchen sand crystals are mostly about 1 mm particles, and bright red cream crystals greater than 5 mm are often collected by mineral enthusiasts at home and abroad. The cinnabar crystals produced in my country are complete and bright in color. In the international market, the price of 5 mm to 10 mm is priced at $ 200, and the world's mineral enthusiasts and collectors are more than 1 inch in Guizhou in my country. Members of Chensha royal family.

Cinnabar has been wicked in China since ancient times. The Taoist painting symbols of the Temple of the Temple of the temple must use cinnabar to bless. Compared with the hot obsidian fried in recent years, cinnabar is a well -deserved evil spirits. Therefore If you like to buy cinnabar jewelry and wear a mascot, how can you distinguish the authenticity of cinnabar jewelry!
everyone knows that cinnabar is a mineral and a medicinal material. According to the different production areas, the color of cinnabar is also different. The colors of magazines, magazines are most common in yellow, white, and purple. Because the cinnabar hardness of the raw ore is very low, it is more crisp than the chalk, so it is easy to break. In view of the above two points, the original ore cinnabar cannot be made of accessories at all, and another point Although cinnabar is not as expensive, it is not cheap. It is not cheap to use raw ore. It takes a lot of cost, and then make a variety of complex shapes. Its process requirements are also high. The mainstream practice is to make cinnabar rough into powder, purify the process, remove the toxicity, and then make various shapes!
It about several simple identification methods. The first and most commonly used is knocking. The real cinnabar jewelry is the same. , Generally, the speed is very high because the rotation speed is fast when the drill is opened. The cinnabar at the open hole will turn white at high temperatures. In addition, it should be very uniform red, and if it is a plastic bead, you will only turn it on the beads, and the real cinnabar will be smashed down It will crack. Due to the factors of many people superstitious weight, many bad businesses will add a large number of industrial black lead during the production process, so that the weight of the jewelry will increase a lot. Blocks, and there are fluorescent powder, known as metal flashing, these basically contents are very small!
The second type is burning. The burning of plastic jewelry will be sufficient. Using lighters will be ignited, it will melt and burn. In the end, there is almost nothing left. After the cinnabar is ignited, it will not be completely burned. Keep its shape without breaking, such as the round balls will keep the ball shape and so on. However, when they burn, they will smell a pungent smell. This is because of cinnabar jewelry. Some plant glue shaping should be added during the shape, otherwise cinnabar jewelry is easy to break!
The third type is the water test method. The real cinnabar is not afraid of water, so you will not fade the color when you encounter water. Take some water and put your cinnabar jewelry in. If the color is not faded is the genuine product. Pay attention to one point, do not dip the shampoo, wash your hair, because these daily necessities contain chemicals, it will corrode cinnabar!
above is some simple ways to identify, and finally tell you the most confusing fake cinnabar. The banner of this type of jewelry, the general merchant, is that the scraped powder is red. If it is white, it is false. The truth is that it is not necessarily fake, but it is red The jewelry, its craftsmanship is the same as the red brick used in the house. After knocking open, it is also red, but the general particles are relatively obvious, the particles are very thick and large, and the weight is not light. Non -professionals are easily confused. The real cinnabar is made of cinnabar powder. The broken lines are more delicate. If it is white, it is true that the red water can be restored in the water.
The above simple methods can only be simply determined whether it is cinnabar, but the content of cinnabar cannot be determined. If the content is required, you can only go to related professional institutions.