1, color
The colors of the two are also very different. Good quality cinnabar is vermilion or maroon in color, with a strong luster on the surface, which gives people a crystal clear feeling visually, while purple or purple with strong color makes the teapot very ornamental.
2. Texture
The texture of the two is also inconsistent. Cinnabar is fine in texture and not strong in graininess. If you touch it by hand, it gives people a smooth feeling, and the gloss of the surface is also very strong, while the texture of purple sand is rough, with obvious graininess and strong hand feeling.
Step 3 use
Their uses are quite different. Cinnabar contains a lot of mercury, which is the most important mineral raw material for mercury smelting. At the same time, cinnabar also has the function of calming the nerves, while purple sand is used to make tea sets, and the tea soup soaked in the made tea sets will be fresher and thicker. Teapots made of purple sand also have high collection value.
Morphological characteristics of cinnabar;
Colors are often bright red, vermilion, light red, dark red and striped red; The crystal belongs to the triangular system, which is plate-shaped or rhombic, and the aggregate is granular or massive. Diamond twin crystals and large-particle single crystals are common in crystal clusters. The surface has diamond luster, glass luster or metallic luster, translucent or opaque; High refractive index and high brittleness; The hardness is Mohs 2~2.5 and the specific gravity is 8.2. Its powder is red and can last for a long time. It was used as a pigment a long time ago.
Zhusha stone only occurs in volcanic rocks, hot spring deposits, low-temperature hydrothermal deposits and fault breccia dolomite caves, and often coexists with Yingshi, Realgar, orpiment, calcite, stibnite, pyrite and albite. 1June, 980, a huge crystal cinnabar was collected in Yanwuping mining area, Wanshan, Guizhou. The crystal is 6.54 cm long, 3.5 cm wide, 3.7 cm high and has a net weight of 237 grams. Pure and flawless quality, bright red color and complete crystal form. The bedrock on one side is dolomite crystal clusters, which are red and white, colorful and magnificent.