Silver: Learning the amazing properties of precious metal

When buying silver is quite often tormented by doubts, decorations are really silver or fake? To check this, you do not have to go to the master

AG – so indicated silver in the Mendeleev table. Main properties: Purpure and plasticity, silver-white color, with glitter, density – 10.5 g / cm?. It has high thermal conductivity, heats up almost instantly, swimming pool – 960?WITH.

Silver people need for … no, first of all, not at all in order to decorate yourself. If the body feels the shortage of this precious metal, like compounds, the work of the endocrine system is broken, the sebaceous glands cease to produce the secret.

Contains this useful trace element in cucumbers, cabbage and dill. Albeit in small quantities.

The stock of silver in the body is replenished if drinking ionized water. Make it easy – lower the silver product into the water container.

Such water not only normalizes the activity of the endocrine system. It increases the body’s immunity, is an effective antiseptic – destructive effect on the pathogenic intestinal flora.

The healing quality of silver was noticed in ancient times. Silver Water Disclaimers were treated with stomach, teeth, colds. Even forced their patients to swallow slices of silver.

Modern science confirmed silver properties like antiseptics. Silver plates are installed in the cleansing systems of air and sea transport liners, for water disinfection during long flights.

Nevertheless, this precious metal is more applied in decorative purposes.

Damage to counterfeit products 

Buying decorations from silver, I want them to have long pleased with their attractive species and did not damage to health. Can be surprised as products that are worn by adults – can cause the body harm? If it were about the children, everything is clear here – they can take a thing in her mouth, breathe her. Adult people use items for their intended purpose.

If in the silver alloy there is an elevated nickel or zinc content – it may adversely affect the skin. A small amount of metal at constant contact is absorbed, which can cause to be seized, dermatitis, local allergic reactions manifested by irritation.

Zinc oxide poisonge. If the product is not removed for a long time, intestinal disorders may occur.

The smallest damage that causes a poor-quality alloy is a dark mark on the skin. Such stains look ugly, spoil the appearance. Especially disappointing if such a speck appears when wearing piercing.

If you purchase – only real silver

How to distinguish silver from fake? If you know these simple ways, it is possible to refuse to buy a poor-quality thing in the store:

• Need to carefully consider sample. Resperating manufacturers of stigma are clearly applied;
• Pay attention to the price. Cheap silver can not. Its value in a buying per gram ranges from 30 to 60 rubles. In the product, the price of a minimum triples.
• The purchased product should be lost using force. Present silver from this action is heated – silver has high warmth – and at the same time the integrity of the coating will not break. If silver is external, it will be visible immediately.

The remaining methods of testing are based on the chemical properties of silver, and in the store they will not allow the seller. Although … what he fear if it is real silver?

To determine whether the silver fake or natural silver can be performed before:

• to spend on the surface of the jewelry with a lipis pencil;
• smear the product with sulfur ointment;
• Rip iodom.

If the metal has not changed its color – it means the silver alloy is real.

There are still ways:

• Scratch the product with a sharp needle. Scratch color nothing should be different from the rest of the surface. If «Rubber» On the product, reddish or yellowish can be concluded: to give a decent type of decoration, it was silver;
• Will help solve the problem, how to determine, silver fake or not, ordinary school chalk. When contacting with chalk, the alcohol-counterfeit darkens. True, you need to wait a few minutes. Immediately the reaction is not manifested;
• Silver products, even very good quality, darken on time. A real alloy return the original color will help cleaning the toothpaste. Fake compositions to polish toothpaste or powder failed.

This test clearly shows the quality of the alloy, but for it requires some time. If the counterfeach is lost by hand – especially when they are sweaty – in a few minutes they will appear black traces.

By the way, this property of counterfeit alloy is successfully used by unscrupulous psychics to lure money from customers. They tell the legend of family value transmitted from generation to generation, and demonstrate some supposedly silver sprinkle with complex engraving and zagululs having «Deep magical meaning».

These are perverse on the cheek, and after a few minutes the damage begins, since the black strip was performed on the skin.

By the way, such a check indicates the damage not always. In people having allergies to the precious metal, the black band when contacting with aluminum, nickel or zinc will not appear.

Sometimes sellers selling «with hand» Jewelry at a reduced price, offer to check silver fake or not using a magnet. Almost everyone knows that this metal does not react to the magnet – this is one of its main physical properties. The buyer sees that the product does not respond to the magnet, and acquires it.

Does not attract a magnet not only silver, but any diamagnetics. For example: copper, cadmium, zirconium, dangerous for contact with zinc skin. Trust such a test is not worth.

The authenticity of silver products is not difficult to check, not even leaving the fit in the store. No need to be shy to do it. If the seller does not let the thing fails, then the purchase should refuse immediately.

In order not to purchase a fake buy jewelry follows only in large stores or from proven manufacturers. Do not allow fraudsters to fool yourself!