Pomegranate is a semi-precious stone, this gem is very popular and beautiful. The stone got its name due to its amazing similarity with grenade branches.
Natural grenade, however, may be not only juicy and red, but also with the mixtures of copper, orange, roses, greenery. A variety of colors of real stones allows you to use imitation in jewelry. You can distinguish the counterfeit yourself, but for this you need to know the properties of the natural mineral. Because of the high cost, artificial, synthetic pomegranate becomes greater popularity. It cannot be called a fake, as it is produced in laboratories using a hydrothermal method of cultivation of crumbs of natural stone.
Properties
Grenades do not have such value as diamonds, emeralds, rubies or sapphires, however, their quality is very high. Mineral stone has the following characteristics:
- durability;
- unpretentious care;
- External effect.
The stone looks very elegant and noble.
Experts refer to him to the stones of a diverse, semi-precious type.
Its breed is small and resemble a scatter grain grain, from where it went. Shades can be diverse, vary from raspberry-burgundy to orange-copper, red-pink, black, purple, green. It all depends on which component of natural type is included in the breed. The natural stone has the properties of the mineral crystal. Not all stones are small, there are instances of chicken egg size. A real stone can be both transparent homogeneous and enclosed.
Imitation
The grenade became popular several hundred years ago, he was very popular, and then the jewelers were unclean on the hand began to fake the breed.
It is this mineral that is one of the symbols of the Czech state, there the scale of fraud reached invisible scale.
Today, in jewelry stores, the departments with grenade products occupy a large area. However, more than half of the stones are artificial. Mimic the pomegranate with the help of fianits, which are stained in the desired shade. Fianit itself is an artificial stone created in the Soviet Union.
An artificial grenade is grown in laboratories and has nothing to do with fakes. Fake a stone usually with glass or plastic counterparts. Fake grenades most often make out of the faceted glass. There is even a special pomegranate glass that are replaced with genuine stones in jewelry. In order not to buy a product with a banal glass, it is necessary to know the signs of not only natural, but also a hydrothermal, artificial grenade, which, although grown in laboratories, is still not a fake.
Features of hydrothermal stones
Such stones are grown in specialized laboratories from a natural material that remains after the cut of a natural mineral.
The laboratory stone is larger, its purity is obvious, the color is always homogeneous, uniform, without inclusions.
Stones have almost the same hardness as natural, they are stored without problems. The cut is very high quality, such a gem perfectly plays paints if they substitute it under the light. Artificial copy has the following characteristic signs of crystal growth lines:
- arcuate segments;
- ring-shaped segments;
- Straight lines.
The laboratories began to grow grenades and satal in the middle of the 20th century, technologically, it is quite difficult, so the price of an artificial grenade is rather big. In the Soviet Union, decorations with pink, purple, yellow nano-grenades created. Production was very widespread.
Pomegranate or ruby?
Sometimes the grenade itself acts as imitation - both natural and artificial. Most often, they are used to replace rubies. However, you do not need to have some special knowledge to distinguish two of these stones:
- Rubin's radiant looks like a diamond;
- This stone is not a magnetic;
- Glow velvet, very soft, shimmering type.
How to determine authenticity?
There are several ways to determine the origin of the gem, and also find out if it is not fake. The first is a visual inspection, it will take a magnifying device, such as a magnifying glass. It is necessary to analyze the stone in the light and determine such qualities as the color, degree of transparency, size.
- Colour. The color of the natural mineral - fragmentary type, viewing zones, gradation, color juiciness is different, different colors can be present. Artificial stone has a homogeneous, uniform color and color. Nugget contains small inclusions, hydrothermal grenade - no. If there are bubbles in front of you.
- The size. Most often, natural gem has a magnitude similar to the grains of a pomegranate fetus, after the cut, it becomes even less. Large stones most often fake. Special attention must be paid to green grenades, they are the most rare. If you meet a product with a large green grenade, most likely it is imitation. In general, green grenades can only be bought from auction.
- Shine and shine. Natural stone has muted radiance, glitter it is poorly expressed, close to mattness. Artificial grenade glitters dazzling. The light natural grenade passes partially, on the edges of the beam is refracted, which creates the effect of the game of light.
The second method of determining the authenticity of the mineral - mechanical, here you need a characteristic of physical properties:
- Natural and synthetic specimens are very hard and easily scratching the surface of plastic and glass type - if you are fake, it is damaged in the same way as the surface or even more;
- The natural mineral is heated much longer, the plastic and glass is heated faster than all;
- Natural gem of magnets and is electrified, you can lose it about a wool product, for example.
In order not to happen trouble, it is necessary to acquire jewelry in stores with all the necessary certificates of conformity. If you are denied the provision of documents on the product, it is fake. If you got a product as a gift, inheritance or other way, it can be checked by the methods specified above. If you have doubts, take the stone by a jeweler specialist for a complete and deep assessment.
About how to distinguish ruby from a grenade, told further.