When we took the old crystal out of the box, we didn’t know what was going to happen.

Summer. It's holiday time. My girlfriend and I went to high school. Lisa Ivanovna, her grandmother, looks at us like an experienced conspirator, and pulls out of the sideboard a burgundy crystal set: a small decanter and very tiny glasses. Ira and I are fascinated by looking at these magical things from another life and are anticipating the mystery. By the way, we will think together what properties of crystal allow it to overcome both fashion trends and time.

Properties of crystal

Peels We will immediately determine: crystal, from which vases, salads, cremancas, glasses and dishes are made, is not rock crystal, but crystal glass made by pressing and additives of metal oxides. This method was invented in 1676 by the English master George Ravenscroft. So far, the technology of crystal glass production has changed little. Adding lead oxide to the liquid glass mass and pressing, gradual cooling allow the glass to acquire particularly attractive properties of crystal: plasticity, density, one hundred percent transparency, sonority, “play of light”...



Peels Lisa Ivanovna put a decanter and two glasses on a crystal dish, poured into each about a dessert spoon of a fragrant strong drink from rose petals and gave us - to commune in the summer. The aroma and taste are divine! In your mouth is a garden and eternal spring. The sun's rays flooded the room, touched the thin lines of faceted crystal patterns - and played on a white, embroidered rainbow tablecloth. On the table “every hunter wants to know where the pheasant sits” – you can’t take your eyes off.



Are Peels old-fashioned? Surely you also have wonderful memories of crystal, despite its alleged old-fashionedness. Which side to look at. Take the growing popularity of crystals from Austrian firm Swarovski. No celebration is complete without their decorated things.

Do not rush to throw out grandmother's crystal "rooks", glasses, salads. The main thing is to have somewhere to store it. Like a collection, for example. Over time, everyday crystal glass products will grow old enough to become antiques. And grandchildren, great-grandchildren may well be useful. The well-forgotten old has the habit of becoming new.



And here it is important to be able to distinguish a genuine crystal glass from a fake.

The properties of crystal will help in this:

1. Pour well-heated water of the same temperature into ordinary and crystal glass products. Crystal heats up more slowly than glass.
2. The crystal feels cooler than plain glass.
   
   
   
   
3. Look through a glass at an object. The image is not distorted, so the glass is crystal.
4. Knock your nail on the edge of the product. A real crystal product will respond with a melodic ringing, and from ordinary glass you will hear a deaf sound.
5. Due to the higher density, the crystal glass does not dim, it is very difficult to scratch, unlike conventional glass.
   
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6. Ordinary glass is broken in large pieces. But the crystal, broken - fortunately - almost crumbles into dust. But this way of checking after the fact is of little use. Unless you can be happy: not a fake!

Many commodity experts refer to crystal products made of Czech (Bohemian) and Venetian glass. The mountain crystal (quartz) is attributed to magical properties. They say that he is able to improve the work of the brain and spinal cord, increase insight (remember divination with the help of a crystal ball). Talismans made of rock crystal attract love, sympathy of the environment, joy, success, well-being to the owner.



Peels Mineral will help get rid of insomnia, nightmares and fears. They claim that rock crystal enhances mental processes, attention, memory, desire to learn. Maybe rock crystal should fix the classrooms?

And if you wear a bracelet from it, you can protect yourself from the formation of blood clots. But after all, compliance with the drinking regimen is also effective for the prevention of thrombosis ... The choice is yours.