UV Flashlights for Amber Identification

For every amber hunter, UV light is a must-have, not only can use it to distinguish the amber and other materials such as plastic or the like, can also amber varieties, origin, year, etc. UV light helps a lot. Here, we will have a simple discussion about the UV flashlights on amber analysis.

1. No fluorescence reaction certainly is not amber?

Analyzing this situation, it is necessary to observe whether the object itself has a thick oxide layer and ore parcel layer because amber if after a very long years, Patricia body surface oxidation is severe, the fluorescence reaction will be very weak. If a package is a relatively thick layer of or, then almost no fluorescence response. Encounter this situation, the most straightforward approach is appropriate to the epidermis polished look, so wrapped up in the oxide layer which Perot body exposed, and then irradiated with UV flashlight, can more easily judge. In other words, if the object surface is smooth and clean, and there is no excessive oxidation, so there is definitely a fluorescence reaction. If no fluorescence reaction, it must be a plastic.

2. How to use violet flashlight to distinguish amber, rosin or copal?

a. Fluorescent reaction of rosin is dark green, fluorescent reaction is weak.

b. Natural amber has stronger fluorescent reaction, such as Haipo pale green fluorescence, mineral amber blue fluorescence.

c. Most of the copal basically there is no fluorescence response.

3. How to use UV flashlight to judge amber origins?

a. Baltic countries by the middle of "Haipo" that is our country called "beeswax", ore grinding, and just peeled out of the finished machining, light green fluorescent reaction. Baltic amber fluorescent is blue-white fluorescence Burmese amber

b. Dominica amber mainly gold green amber, amber, blue, green, sky blue amber, etc., to determine their differences, needs to use daylight, white torch to the reference judge under black or white light condition ,simple UV flashlight is not easy to distinguish. blue sky amber has blue and white fluorescent reaction, revealing blue white light, fluorescence and bright blue. Refreshing the finished material, the edge will be a little touch of green, depending on the material purity, impurity content vary. Blue, green amber, amber gold green fluorescence is blue, but blue fluorescence is deeper darker than sky blue. gold green fluorescent, some lighter.

c. Mexico, mainly amber gold green and amber blue green, fluorescence reaction similar to Domi. comparable to Domi Blue sky material is rare.

d. Myanmar amber varieties, such as the general Burmese amber brown amber, gold amber, gold and blue amber and so on, the fluorescent reaction was blue and white, compared to Domi and Mexico gold amber, gold green amber, the blue was very thorough. Myanmar blood amber fluorescent reaction is dark green.

4. How to use UV flashlight judge whether the amber suppression?

Amber is now getting superb optimization techniques, some optimization Amber also has fluorescent reaction, the key to distinguish whether optimization is to rely on careful observation of repression and judgment. Optimized amber, fluorescence response will be weakened. Optimization deeper, fluorescent weaker, until it disappears.

For example Haipo, not optimized, the fluorescence reaction is obvious pale green, translucent kind of light green. After mild pressure clean technology optimization, if not to do comparison with no optimization of ore, it is almost not see much difference come. But a comparison, it is obviously weaker than the non-optimized material. Depth optimization, bake again pressed Haipo,no fluorescence response, the difference is obvious.

In addition, the amber can be observed carefully with the UV flashlight whether flow pattern is normal, pressing the material through UV flashlight to observe, to see the rules of the massive joint surface, no suppression of amber, natural and smooth flowing lines, there will be a natural bent radians. This would need more contrast observed accumulation of experience for the job, it’s not easy to express in simple words.