What are the identification characteristics of agate?
Question: There are a lot of fake agate on the market now. Is there any way to identify its authenticity?
The BEST ANSWER: A LARGE NUMBER OF FAKE AGATE APPEARED ON THE MARKET AT PRESENT, THE MAIN PRODUCTS ARE SYNTHETIC AGATE, GLASS, plastic, stone AND SO ON, ALTHOUGH ITS TEXTURE, COLOUR AND LUSTRE IS COMPARABLE WITH natural AGATE, BUT IT DOES NOT HAVE economic value.
Generally speaking, all levels of agate, red, blue, purple, pink for the best, and the requirements of transparency, no impurities, no sand, no cracks;
Among THEM, THE BLOCK WEIGHS 4.5 KG FOR the special class, 1.5 KG for the first class, 0.5-1.5 kg for the second class.
1, super: beautiful grain;
Pure, bright red, blue, purple, pink;
Good transparency, namely translucent;
No crack, no sand core, no impurities;
A block weighing more than 5 kg.
2, level 1: beautiful grain;
Pure, bright red, blue, purple, pink;
Good transparency, namely translucent;
No crack, no sand core, no impurities;
A block weighing about 2-5 kg.
3, secondary: beautiful grain;
Pure, bright red, blue, purple, pink;
Good transparency, namely translucent;
No crack, no sand core, no impurities;
A block weighing about 0.5-2 kg.
4, level 3: beautiful grain;
Pure, bright red, blue, purple, pink;
Good transparency, namely translucent;
No crack, no sand core, no impurities;
A block weighing less than 0.5 kg.
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