With absolute confidence to tell that before you the product from the real turquoise lies, only the experienced jeweler after carrying out special researches can. But there are several rules which will help you to avoid purchase of a frank fake.
Instruction
1. Place a product under a magnifying glass. Attentively consider impregnations if their color is much more dark than the stone, most likely, it is the magnesite painted by means of copper salts. Study a stone surface: porous turquoise, and plastic fakes are not present. If you see the smallest bubbles, so before you a fake from glass. About same microscopic cracks testify, on their real turquoise should not be. Being going to buy a beads, examine places where openings for threads are drilled. If an interior of beads white or, on the contrary, the plastic painted in color of turquoise, dark, so before you.
2. Rub a stone wet towel wipes if material is painted, so before you the fake painted by cheap dye. Better ways of coloring can be checked, having carried out by the cotton pad moistened in alcohol on a stone surface. On the plane there will be stains, and the disk will be soiled. However it is not a universal way of check, it will help to exclude only low-quality imitation.
3. Use the needle heated in a flame. Concern it a stone (preferably inside). If you feel a pungent smell of fake plastic – before you a fake from synthetic material. The needle at the same time will melt a stone surface. The smell of burned hair is characteristic of imitation of the turquoise made of fossilized bones of animals. On the real turquoise the coloring of a stone will change, on a surface microscopic drops of pitch or wax which they napityvat a stone when processing will act.
4. Try to scratch a stone. If the sharp metal object easily leaves marks, under the line white color appears, and along it spiral shaving is formed, know, it is not the real turquoise.
5. Be guided by the price and the size of a product upon purchase. Turquoise – expensive and rare mineral, jewelry with it costs expensive. If the price of a product is less than 200 dollars, perhaps, before you the stone pressed from a crumb. Besides, the real turquoise is not the large sizes, stones quite small. Ask the seller to provide the certificate of authenticity.