Silver jewelry according to their purity, low can be divided into pure silver, fine silver and silver color. By processing methods can be divided into casting silver, to create fine silver and silver work products. Silver jewelry also can be used to identify:
☆ see color:
The higher the purity, the more white and silver, jewelry, shiny surface looks uniform, with polish. If you lead, will be showing a gray jewelry; such as copper, jewelry surface will become rough, the color is not moist feeling.
☆ weigh weight:
Silver density is slightly larger than the average common metal, generally speaking: "aluminum light weight silver, copper does not light nor heavy." Dian Dian thus whether the weight of silver to make their initial judgments. If the jewelry larger and lighter, you can determine the initial jewelry is other metals.
☆ check the hardness:
Lower than the hardness of copper silver, and more lead, tin big draw jewelry pin can be used to test inconspicuous place, such as needle skid surface, difficult to leave marks, you can judge for copper jewelry; such as lead, tin texture, the traces clearly highlight; such as physical traces but less obvious, can be initially determined for the silver jewelry.
☆ listen to rhyme:
Sterling silver jewelry ringing, no stretch, the sound of "porphyrin porphyrin clatter clatter." Lower purity, the lower the sound, and higher and with more sharp sound rhyme; the case of copper, its voice higher and sharp, rapid and short rhyme sound; the case of lead, tin texture, then throw to sound boring, short , no stretch.
☆ About 925 Silver
☆ What is anodic oxidation treatment
Anodic oxidation process on silver jewelry - the so-called anodic oxidation treatment in the most direct way is coated on the outside layer of platinum, silver for those who do not have time maintenance is very convenient option.
☆ Silver Jewelry
--- Second only to gold silver is one of the precious metals, platinum or gold prices, although not so high, but still far more than the price of tin, lead, metal, but silver is too soft and easily deformed, it is usually Other alloys are added to increase hardness of the alloy are added different countries, so long as the international standard silver content of 925 ppm to over hundreds identified as silver.
☆ What is 925 Silver
Generally sells in the market are all of pure silver, 925 silver, silver instead of 999 because 925 is the addition of other metals silver into gold and silver together, this 925 silver in the international community has also been recognized as a sterling silver into their ratio of 7.5% and 92.5% of the alloy of silver, so sterling silver jewelry forging a stronger but also more difficult to wear and deformation, the real 999 sterling silver is very soft, like gold, silver alloys had to do to add out of the jewelry will be durable, and will not wear a few days on the surface deformation and wear too much.
☆ How to maintain sterling silver jewelry
Silver oxide will lead to the biggest reason is that oxygen in the air, so the air barrier is the best way of maintenance, for example, silver sealed plastic bag and then into the jewelry box, blocking the air with silver contacts, when Silver oxidation can be washed in silver or silver cleaning cloth to polish the silver, but silver wash water mass destruction strong, so please try not to resort to wipe with a silver cleaning cloth, such as the use of wash silver immediately after washing off Pick up the flush and soft rub and clean out the surface of the chemicals, and otherwise use the hair dryer will speed up the oxygen in the water silver oxide Oh!
☆ About Tibetan silver
Tibetan silver is a copper-nickel alloy (copper-nickel alloy) Blair said, the traditional Tibetan silver on silver with 30 per cent Seventy percent of copper. Tibetan silver jewelry on the market today are mostly 30 per cent plus Seventy percent silver alloy.

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