How to distinguish between tourmaline and crystal

How to distinguish between tourmaline and crystal? In addition to taking professional testing agencies to detect, is there an easy way for ordinary consumers to quickly distinguish between the two? The appearance of tourmaline and crystal makes many consumers mistakenly think that the high-grade crystal is tourmaline, tourmaline and crystal are the same kind of items. In fact, this view is not accurate.

Tourmaline

At present, many unprofessional businesses on the market have sold some low-end tourmalines and crystals together, and introduced to customers that tourmaline is a kind of crystal. Many people think that tourmaline is a kind of crystal that is not expensive. In fact, this is not true. Tourmaline and crystal are two different minerals. In the jewellery world, tourmaline is a medium-to-high-end gemstone, and high-quality tourmalines are rarer than diamonds. Crystal is a general gem.

crystal

The chemical composition of the two is also different. Tourmaline is a complex silicate. Crystal is a colorless and transparent large quartz crystal mineral. The main chemical component of crystal is silica. When the crystal of silica is perfect, it is crystal. After silica gelation and dehydration, it is agate. The silica hydrogel is solidified and becomes opal. When the silica grain is less than a few microns. It forms chalcedony, vermiculite and secondary quartzite. Due to the complex chemical composition of tourmaline, there is currently no synthetic tourmaline. Synthetic crystal jewelry is available in many markets. In 1768, the famous Swedish scientist Linnes discovered that the tourmaline is piezoelectric and pyroelectric, and the mineralogical name is "tourmaline". Crystal has no such effect. The color of the tourmaline is also much richer than the crystal, subdividing as many as 15 kinds of complex colors. The hardness of tourmaline is also higher than that of crystal, and the magnetic field of tourmaline is several dozens to hundreds of times of the same color crystal.

“The color of the tourmaline transitions naturally, and the crystal looks unnatural, and the jump is relatively large. Inexperienced consumers are generally difficult to distinguish.”

“There is no simple way to quickly distinguish between tourmaline and crystal. The value of the two is very different. The value of tourmaline is much higher than that of crystal.” Mr. Gui also reminded consumers that the safest way is to do it. Detection.

Businesses engaged in the crystal business, they all said that there is no simple way for ordinary consumers to quickly distinguish between tourmaline and crystal.

It is understood that there is a big difference between the test certificates of tourmaline and crystal. Tourmaline's test certificate will show "Bi

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