How to distinguish present шунгит from a fake?
Unique properties шунгита are known enough for a long time. It was no secret, that unfair businessmen frequently give out for шунгит the quite different stone breeds similar on color and structure on шунгит.
Lately at unfair manufacturers cases of sale under mark шунгит шунгизита, – a material on the outside similar, and on properties nothing similar on шунгит have become frequent.
The price for it much more below, but a content of all components, including carbon (in structure фуллеренов) in шунгизите in some times is less (less than 10 %), than in шунгите (from 26 % and above).
To distinguish a fake from the original at first sight it is complex even to the expert. There is one simple, but the most reliable way to distinguish present шунгит. Present шунгит it is possible to distinguish very easily from a fake, as well as from шунгитового slate owing to availability of property of electroconductivity. Electroconductivity – extremely a unusual occurrence in stone breeds. In usual conditions it is enough to have a usual battery, a bulb from a pocket lantern and two wires. Connect consistently a bulb and a battery, touch with two wirings any product from шунгита – the bulb will light up. If is not present – that you have got a fake.
