The color of natural agate distinct stripe pattern evident

At present, the price of agate, while not high, but the market Pearl pendant there are still a large number of false agate, primarily synthetic agate, with the vitreous and plastic quality, but also stone's. While the fake agate texture, color degree comparable with natural agate, but its economic value and investment value of almost zero. To identify true and false agate are available from the product texture, transparency, pattern, color, weight and temperature of several aspects.

Material: real agate hardness higher than from glass, plastic or false imitation agate stone hard, depicts the method used for testing. In addition, real rare agate surface defects, while the pseudo-surface flaws more agate.

Transparency: the transparency of real agate is not high, there is chaotic feeling, and sometimes you can see the natural water line or the "clouds"; synthetic agate transparency is good, a bit like glass balls.

Pattern and color: Pearl ring real agate color clear, bright color, but leave the shade of agate are bad a Freshwater pearls chip, contrast markedly. The color, the color of natural agate distinct stripe pattern evident, while the majority of false color gorgeous agate, distribution uniform, false sense of obvious.

Weight: As the material is different than the synthetic real agate jewelry agate jewelry heavier.

Temperature: real agate Dongnuanxialiang, while the synthetic agate will change with the outside temperature: hot days, when hot, cool days, when cool.

In addition, the natural color agate are mainly red, amber and white. Among them were the best red, purple, black or green agate quality is not bad. However, the market or products with natural agate stone color, and it has made processing of dyeing, such Pearl necklace as Pearl bracelet blue agate jewelry is not generally true colors, so after a few years will be used as bleaching and dyeing emerald.

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