Indian small leaf red sandalwood is sandalwood. Red sandalwood is one of the main materials for court furniture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in ancient China, and it is also a kind of jewelry loved by modern people. So how should small leaf red sandalwood identify true and false? Let's have a look
1. The specific gravity of red sandalwood is greater than that of water. Even if it is a bead, red sandalwood will sink in the water. This is the simplest method. However, in addition to red sandalwood, many wood can sink in the water, so it can not be used as an absolute identification method. We have to continue to the next step.
2. Take a piece of wood or draw a wooden bead on white paper. If sandalwood or red sandalwood, there are orange scratches.
3. Take wood chips or wood blocks and put them into a glass filled with clear water. It can be seen that the top layer of water (visual effect: the top layer of water and the glass wall are the most obvious) has blue oil like fluorescence for more than 12 hours, which is more obvious for a long time. This step is mainly used to exclude other acid branched wood and non red sandalwood wood such as Lu's black and yellow sandalwood 'big leaf red sandalwood'. If there is fluorescence, continue to the next step.
4. Put the red sandalwood block into the container containing alcohol, and red sandalwood will exude from the red sandalwood in the form of smoke.
5. When looking at the growth wheel on the cross section, if it is red sandalwood, the growth wheel is not obvious.
6. Observe the surface color. If it is red sandalwood, the new section is orange red, and for a long time, it is purple to dark purple. The color will change with the oxidation time. You can also paste an opaque tape on the newly made red sandalwood and tear it off a week later. The position covered by the tape will be significantly different from the surrounding color.
7. 30 times magnification of cross section. This is the last step of identification