How is fake zisha pot clay made?
There are two kinds of fake zisha clay, one is ordinary clay for blending, and then coloring with chemicals, this is what we often say chemical pots; and the other is to use ordinary clay, through the addition of chemical pigments as well as sand blending, firing into the appearance of zisha pots.
1, chemical mud fake
Chemical clay counterfeiting is actually clay or alabaster clay, only after artificial blending after the use of chemical materials coloring. Therefore, its sand color and characteristics or retain most of the characteristics of zisha clay, normal use of tea can also be used, but if you add too much chemical material, or firing is not complete, or add the national regulations outside of the toxic raw materials, there may be serious harm to the body.
In general, the chemical materials added to the chemical clay usually include cobalt oxide, manganese oxide, iron oxide and so on. Different added raw materials can be blended out of different mud, such as cobalt oxide can be blended out of cyan, green, blue and other main color pots; manganese oxide can be blended out of black pots; iron oxide can be blended out of red pots and so on.
Chemical pots clay fake zisha pots, generally speaking are counterfeit some rare clay zisha pots or speculation out of the original mine does not exist in the clay, ordinary zisha pots rarely seen, want to avoid buying chemical pots, buy zisha pots relatively safer.
2, ordinary clay counterfeiting
The use of ordinary clay to add sand and industrial materials, this has no purple sand clay should have the characteristics, can not be regarded as purple sand pots, there is no effect of purple sand pots for tea. This kind of pot is usually more just have the similar appearance of the color of zisha pots, if you look closely, even the texture of the zisha should have no, usually using the hand-pulled embryo method of production.
Clay pots because it is made of hand-pulled embryo, so there will be a lot of circles and circles of horizontal lines on the inner wall, you can use this feature can be more easily identified.
How to identify pots made of fake zisha pot clay?
1, look at the color: add industrial raw materials toned zisha pots, some of the color will be very bright, because the color of industrial raw materials is not a natural change of color, so the color will be very rich, even shiny and harsh.
2, smell: authentic Zisha pots will only have the earthy smell of the soil was burned by fire, while the fake Zisha pots may have added the smell of chemical raw materials.
3, feel the texture: authentic Zisha pot surface will have a granularity, and not smooth, while the surface of the hand-pulled embryo Zisha pot is very smooth, and the inner wall will have a spiral horizontal lines.
4, boiling water: the real original mine zisha clay pot, the color is more natural, without adding any chemical dyes. If the zisha pot into the water hot, the surface of the pot appears to fade, the color of the water has changed, then the pot of clay is fake, at least added other chemicals.
In today's content, we introduced how two kinds of fake zisha pots are made and shared common ways to identify fake zisha pots for you. If you still do not quite understand the place, welcome to leave a message at any time to discuss together!