Why should jade jewelry be waxed?

Jade jewelry is often waxed to increase its glamority after being carved, so jade jewelry cannot be in contact with acids, alkalis and organic solvents. Even unwaxed jade jewelry, because they are mostly mineral aggregates, should not be in contact with acids and alkalis for a long time. These chemicals can cause corrosion on the surface of jade jewelry. Also, don't put the jade jewelry in the box for a long time. After a long time, the jade jewelry will also "water loss" and dry out.

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Waxing is to soak the finished jadeite in the molten paraffin and keep it for a while so that the paraffin is immersed in various voids on the surface of the jade. If the texture of the jade is relatively tight, the wax is immersed only on the surface layer, and the jade is waxed to fill the small pits and small pores on the surface to enhance the gloss and transparency of the surface.

However, if the texture of the jade is relatively loose, or after various picklings, including the traditional "yangmei soup", the pores of the jade will increase, and more paraffin will be filled into the interior of the jade. The jade, which is immersed in more wax, will produce white flowers due to the aging of the wax, which will make the emerald's transparency worse.

Some jadeites will produce this change in just half a year because of the poor quality of the wax. Therefore, this wax filling process is different from waxing and can be called dipping wax treatment.

The dipping wax treatment is different from the pickling and gluing treatment. The jadeite treated with the waxing is not subjected to strong pickling, and the structural damage is not strong, and there is no significant influence on the durability of the jadeite.

In another case, the structure of natural jadeite is quite loose in itself. For example, jadeite with coarse grain structure, if too much wax, may also change the transparency of jadeite due to aging of wax, or as a jade jade.

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