Wednesday, January 21, 2009

How to identify genuine and fake silver jewelry

metal to be used may cause harm to humans, so the silver price to be more vigilant, and its identification methods have the following, when the purchase must be carefully observed. 
1. Try Weight 
Silver density slightly larger than the common metals, generally speaking: aluminum light weight silver, bronze is not a light nor heavy.therefore the weight of silver can be made for their initial judgments, if the jewelry lighter size can be a preliminary to determine the other metal jewelry department. 
2. To listen to Phonology 
Ornaments such as high fineness silver, while resounding no rhyme, no stretch, the sound as "porphyrin pyridaben pyridaben porphyrin." Couplers lower, the lower voices, sounds higher and with more pointed rhyme; if for copper, its sound and more pointed, rapid and short rhyme sound; if for lead, tin texture, then throwing to sound boring, short, No stretch. 
3.look set Couplers 
Cut open to silver jewelry, watch color, if white silk and cotton , jewelry surface smooth, fine surface oxidation hair color was bright and Ukraine, it can be concluded in the 98 or so of its fineness; if rough and soft, micro-marked red, Couplers in 95 percent;white with ash, then a slight reddish fineness of 90 percent; hand bending hard,pink or gray, the fineness of 80 percent; fineness of about 70 silver, its surface white yellow and dry,reddish, yellow both, bending rigidity; if red with black, yellow in with black, its fineness has been below 60. 
4. The characteristics of fake silver 
Silver is generally used forged copper, brass, copper-nickel alloy, lead, tin, aluminum and other manufacturers, and its features are: red copper: the appearance of purple, red, green embroidered Health. Huang copper: the appearance of yellow, green beans, raw green embroidered. White copper: the appearance of white, gray brick, raw green embroidered. Lead quality: gray blue, soft, with nail marks can be drawn Road. Tin quality: silver-white, soft, with nail marks can be drawn Road. Aluminum: white gray, soft and light physique. 
5. To see the color (also known as look at noodle shops) test 
The higher purity, silver more white and delicate evenly illuminated, there are polished. If leaded quality, will be issued with Green gray tidal flowers; such as those containing copper, there will be rough and broken heart, there are dry sense. Oxidized surface of the silver despite the black rust, but its color was black and shiny, lead, tin, copper-nickel alloy is not shiny, and its color-fat evening. 
6. Test hardness 
Silver hardness lower than that of copper, while lead, tin, and it is slightly harder with pin designated to test the surface in kind, such as needles skid surface, difficult to leave behind traces of copper may be judged to jewelry; such as pewter texture, then traces it is clear that prominent; such as the physical traces left and less obvious, can be judged to be the initial silver jewelry. Pure silver jewelry hand-pulling, folding deformation will be able to make it.

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