The price of natural jadeite is generally more expensive. Some unscrupulous traders not only deceive the jadeite B and C goods as natural jade, but also some black-hearted merchants will not be jadeite. These fake jadeites often have some similarities in natural jade, so it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, and it is easy to be deceived. Today we are talking about a fake jade - Malay jade.
What is Malay jade?
Malay jade is a jade imitation product that has been available in the market in recent years. It is highly deceptive with its rich emerald green, delicate texture and good transparency. The full name of "Malay Jade" is "Malaysia Jade". It has other names such as "Nanyang Cui", "Malay Jade" and "South Korea Jade". In fact, its correct name should be "dyed quartzite."
How did Malay jade become a fake jade?
Malay jade became popular in 1988 in Thailand, Myanmar and the Yunnan border. Its appearance is similar to high-grade jade, glass luster, translucent, generally old and green, in the transmitted light can see the beautiful jade like a green spider web, the price is only one hundred and eighty yuan, really makes people heart.
Malay jade head parabolic surface can see the traces of artificial honing, and sometimes the edges left by the mold can be seen under the edge, and these phenomena are not available in jade. A magnifying glass can be used to observe the phenomenon of the granular structure of the male jade and the distribution of the green dye along the edge, and the presence of the dye can also be observed. The green of Malay jade will become shallower and even disappear after a hundred years.
Although Malay jade has a rich emerald green color, fine texture and good transparency, compared with the real Burmese jade, they can be said to be "not worth a dollar." In the 1980s, beaded or ring-faced with this kind of green bright and uniform jade became popular in the jade market. It once deceived many people and thought it was “a rare high-grade jadeâ€; some even Malay jade went bankrupt.
The difference between Malay jade and jade
a. The proportion of Malaysian jade is 2.65, which is much smaller than the proportion of jadeite 3.24-3.43.
b. The average refractive index of Malaysian jade is 1.55, which is lower than that of jadeite.
c. The color does not turn red under the Charles filter, but the presence of the dye can be observed under the ten-fold microscope, that is, the color is very floating and is a staining phenomenon.
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