This stone received the name in honor of optical effect – a cat's eye. Its main value consists in it. It is quite expensive stone, its price is comparable to the cost of diamonds and rubies. But often on counters cheap stones appear. It, naturally, attracts a large number of buyers, but it must be kept in mind that in that case there is a big risk to get a fake.
Differences of a natural stone
It is possible to distinguish a fake most often at the price. The natural stone costs very much if offer you cheap mineral, then it is possible to be fully confident that it is a fake. In general to distinguish a fake quite difficult, especially if it is made of quality material. The most important council here is to make purchase in the checked jewelry store.
First of all pay attention to a strip on a stone. It has to be accurate, at rotation of a stone should not change the situation. Strips on stones can be various on intensity of coloring, can disseminate and reflect light, and can not have this property. Therefore these signs do not give absolute confidence in authenticity of a stone.
For example, a hrizoberillovy cat's eye possesses opalescence, and quartz – no. And, and the cost of the last is a little lower, but in jewelry it is most often applied. Therefore for certain to define an original stone, it is necessary to be guided by set of all signs. Keep in mind that only natural stones have all properties inherent in them.
The materials applied to fakes
The most often applied material for production of fakes of a cat's eye is a borosilicate glass. Its distinctive feature from natural mineral is color. Frequent it is bright and motley colourings bright pink, yellow, blue, blue, green and other flowers. Such stone very effectively looks, but a natural cat's eye cannot be too bright color. Besides, draw close attention to a strip – in artificial stones it can take any bizzare shape, and in the real stones it is always almost direct. Uleksit also perfectly is suitable for imitation of a cat's eye. Their structures are very similar, thanks to it, uleksit has the same optical effect. But the cost of such stone will be much lower. It has very low hardness therefore it is applied most often only as inserts in a jewelry. Besides, it is easy to scratch it. Often apply to production of fakes of a cat's eye ketsayt. It can be blue, green or honey-yellow color. Big stones are opaque, and small copies often are translucent. Since material has quite quite good qualities, its cost quite high too.