The easiest way to identify whether your jade is real or fake

In this era of rapid economic development, people's interests and hobbies are becoming more and more extensive and their tastes are becoming higher and higher. Among them, jade enthusiasts are increasing day by day, and many of them feel good about jade identification. However, in fact, most of them do not know that some of their methods of identifying jade are sometimes wrong, unscientific and unreliable.

I heard from someone that there is a method where you wrap a piece of hair around jade and light it with a lighter. The standard for judging whether the jade is real or fake is that the jade that burns is fake jade, and the jade that does not burn is fake jade.

Jadeite is real jadeite. The person who came up with this method may have been inspired by the principle of heat transfer and invented such a "clever" method.

Actual operation: The hair is not firmly attached to the jade, and the outer flame of the flame (the outer flame has the highest temperature, and the inner flame has the lowest temperature) burns directly on the hair and may burn it all at once; even if the hair and jade are very tightly attached, if the burning time is not well controlled and it is a little longer, the hair will also be burnt (the overall temperature of the jade has risen and there is no way to conduct the heat away); in addition, jade imitations have good thermal conductivity, and if you control it well, the hair will not be burnt either. Therefore, burning jade is not reliable, and burning is a destructive identification method, so it is not recommended that you try it easily!

Some people think that using jade to scratch glass is also a feasible method. If it can scratch the glass, it is real jade. On the contrary, if it does not scratch, it is fake jade. The fundamental mistake of using this method is that people do not understand the methods of counterfeiting jade and form such a perception. Use this method to see if you can scratch the glass.

The truth is: the Mohs hardness of jadeite is 6.5-7, the Mohs hardness of Hetian jade is 6-6.5, and the Mohs hardness of ordinary glass is 5.5. Therefore, what can scratch glass may not be Hetian jade or jadeite, and what cannot scratch glass is definitely not Hetian jade or jadeite. It should be noted that jade is polycrystalline, the hardness of each part is inconsistent, and there is a difference in hardness. Therefore, scratching glass with jade is a very risky move.

Likewise, scratching jade on glass is also a destructive identification method. Don't be too harsh and damage the jade!

To identify the authenticity of jadeite, Hetian jade, etc., a conclusion can only be drawn through professional numerical comparison of specific gravity, refractive index, absorption spectrum, etc. Some people drop water on the surface of jade and observe the shape of the water drops. If the water drops are round and do not spread out, they will judge that the jade is real! It can only be said that this method might be feasible when the methods of jade counterfeiting were still relatively crude. That is because the surface of B-grade jade will have obvious acid-etched patterns that absorb water droplets, causing the water droplets to deform or directly disperse. Nowadays, B-grade jadeite will be waxed and polished on the surface, and the surface gaps will be filled up. The water drop method is almost a trick to deceive laymen.

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