带染色核海水养殖珍珠的鉴别
Identification of Seawater Cultured Pearls with Dyed Nucleus
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摘要: 最近市场上出现了不少五颜六色的海水有核养殖珍珠,这是广西某公司于2002年开发的一种新技术,利用带有色彩的动植物营养素,在对珍珠贝进行插核手术前,对珍珠核、移植细胞片进行处理,这样获得的有核养殖珍珠因为核的颜色透过薄的珍珠层而呈现出核的颜色,主要有玫瑰红色、翡翠绿色、海水蓝色和银灰色。通过对比研究发现:这类带染色核的养殖珍珠在放大观察下都显示明显的核的平行条带;珍珠表面的瑕疵和裂纹都没有颜色浓集的现象;在反射光下,经放大在孔眼处明显可见颜色很浓的核和其表面的无色珍珠层;在紫外光下观察,它们常有紫外荧光;在分光镜下观察,可见吸收光谱;通过孔眼测试,核的拉曼光谱显示出比表面珍珠层明显强的荧光背景。Abstract: Seawater cultured pearls with dyed nucleus are found in market recently. These are rosy red, orange or bluish gray. Researches reveal that these pearls’ nucleus were dyed before they were input in oysters. After careful research on these pearls together with the ordinarily dyed pearls, the identification features of these pearls are found. Almost all these pearls show the parallel bands under the strong transmitted light, and they do not show any dyestuff concentrated in cracks. Through the drilled hole, coloured nucleus and colourless outer nuclear layers can be seen under magnification. They usually show fluorescence and specific absorption spectrum of dyestuff under UV light and hand spectroscope respectively. Raman spectra tested through the drilled hole reveal that the dyed nucleus show very strong fluorescent background, but the outer nuclear layers do not.