The relic is not a stone, but a product of bone recrystallization when human bones are cremated.
what is a relic? In Buddhism, it is believed that a monk who has attained the Tao and cultivated high can produce colorful crystals when he is cremated after death. Among these crystals, black is a hair relic, white is a bone relic, red is a muscle relic, and amber is a brain relic. It is said that the 1-year-old monk of Dakaiyuan Temple in Fujian was reluctant to spend a penny on the temple before his death. After his death, he was cremated and found many Buddhist relics, which reflected like a mirror under the flashlight. Considering that there are many Buddhists and the relics are sought after and worshipped, which involves many interests, scientists just hold an attitude of seeing through the relics.
The formation principle of the relic is not complicated. Scientists observed the bones of people who died between 1 year old and 97 years old with an electron scanning microscope, and took samples for thermal induction. In the above picture, A is a bone sample with younger bone age, and B is a bone sample with older bone age, which are heated at 2℃ to 12℃ respectively for a certain period of time. At 2 degrees Celsius, the bones were deformed and shrunk. When the temperature was gradually raised to 4 degrees Celsius, the organic components in the bones began to recombine. When the temperature was raised to 6 degrees Celsius, the bones recombined into crystals. These crystals have various shapes, such as triangles, circles, polygons and other irregular shapes. From 6 to 12 degrees Celsius, this recrystallization phenomenon became more and more obvious, and the crystals began to grow and become bigger. When the temperature rose to 16 degrees Celsius, many crystals began to melt and become spherical. The ultrastructural changes made calcium carbonate and salts in bones combine to form crystals of different colors, which is called relic.
The relic is not a gift from the Buddha, but a crystal formed by a scientific phenomenon. This crystal can know the element composition by using an element analyzer, and there is no mystery. In addition to phosphate, silicate and calcium carbonate, there are many oxides in relic, such as Al2O3, Fe2O3, TiO2, SO2, P2O5, etc. Some people think that the formation of relics is caused by stones in the body, and there are some loopholes in this explanation. Because the relics are colorful, and most stones are yellow.
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This makes it difficult to explain the red, blue and amber colors of sarira. And many Buddhists only eat vegetarian food for a long time, but in the long run, there will be a lack of animal fat in the human body, and bile secretion will become less and thicker, which will combine with oxalic acid in vegetarian dishes to form calcium oxalate kidney calculi. The chemical composition of the relic is mainly silicate and phosphate, and there are few calcium salts, so the statement that the stone is a relic is untenable.
As for the formation of the relics, I believe that most of them are artificially produced in the market. In 28, someone specially applied for the invention patent made by the relic, which can be searched on the official website of China Intellectual Property.