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Якість воску – як визначити фальсифікат.

Якість воску – важлива деталь, since the attempts to falsification, тобто додавання до нього різних воскоподібних домішок – значно погіршуються його властивості і ускладнюється виготовлення вощини з такого матеріалу.

And for such reconstruction honeycomb bees wax does not fit.

In order to promptly determine the quality of the wax in most cases you can even do without laboratory tests.

For its assessment in the home used a set of features beeswax, exterior, structure, smell, nature break, fragility, taste, color and some other indicators.

Even on the basis of evaluation of the above features can determine the presence of beeswax impurities.

Each ingot beeswax to be checked, for what it is split in half.

so, for each feature separately as wax.

1. Smell
2. The form
3. Fragility
4. The nature of the fracture
5. The nature of the chips

The smell of wax ingot

Natural beeswax should have a nice soft honey or honey smell propolisnyy.

If there are wax substance, as stearin, paraffin, rosin, then there is a specific smell them.

The shape of the ingot wax

The surface of ingot natural beeswax, usually, equal or slightly concave.

If the quality is reduced by adding wax paraffin, it is clearly concave surface.

If you hit the hammer on ingot quality beeswax, it is easy to split, and when you add to it in bars of wax from the impact can only dent, bar around which brightens.

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The fragility of wax

Such quality wax, as fragility, varies considerably with the addition of paraffin or stearin, while the wax becomes more fragile.

The nature of the fracture and srizu

Too bad show quality wax. If the ingot knife cut beeswax layer, it will cut mat.

In the presence of impurities, as rosin, wax or paraffin, the cut is smooth and shiny.

At fault ingot natural wax is clearly visible its fine grain structure, unlike wax, в якому міститься парафін – він при розломі оголює свої окремі кристали.

The nature of the wax shavings

Chips diluted wax crumbles when the content of wax in it and becomes brittle when added TSerezin.

The quality of the wax can be defined with warm his fingers: Natural beeswax is plastic, and if the addition of a paraffin fingers feel fat slice.

If you chew natural wax, it does not stick to the teeth, а віск в присутності в його складі стеарину або каніфолі – липне до зубів.

Of course, the above symptoms as wax not replace laboratory tests, but they are often the first step determine the defective product, Moreover, they are always "at hand".