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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 460727, member: 2844&quot;]Exactly, if you get the quantities wrong, it&#039;ll fail the test even if it is amber.</p><p>We don&#039;t generally recommend hot pin tests here, because of the disastrous results to some materials.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie45" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe a silly question, but are they warm to the touch?</p><p>You said they don&#039;t fluoresce very well. Some amber just doesn&#039;t want to cooperate. This is one of my amber necklaces which is genuine natural Baltic egg yolk amber and has passed the float and other tests, but no blatant enthusiasm on the UV test either:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]158604[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]158603[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a site for further testing:</p><p><a href="http://ethnicjewelsmagazine.com/the-identification-of-amber-and-its-copies/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ethnicjewelsmagazine.com/the-identification-of-amber-and-its-copies/" rel="nofollow">http://ethnicjewelsmagazine.com/the-identification-of-amber-and-its-copies/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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