{"id":7185,"date":"2011-09-20T12:48:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T12:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/?p=7185"},"modified":"2011-09-20T11:48:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:48:37","slug":"how-to-effectively-test-gold-and-silver-jewelry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/7185\/how-to-effectively-test-gold-and-silver-jewelry\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Effectively Test Gold and Silver Jewelry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a selection of gold and silver jewelries? Do you know how to identify a forgery from a real jewels? Without doubts, jewelries are lovely especially if they are made of gold or silver. Many considered them as great savings. They are not cheap. They can cost hundreds and thousands of dollars depending on its rarity and loveliness. With that said, understanding the legitimacy of silver or gold jewels is very crucial. If you don&#8217;t want your lifetime savings gone to waste because of fake jewelries here are few tips.<\/p>\n<p>Using A Piece Of Glass When trying your jewelry using a glass, choose a section that will be less observable in case this examination leaves a fixed blotch. Prepare a piece of glass and your gold instance for analysis. Using the sharpest point of the glass, rub the gold jewelry. Scratches signify that the purity of gold is low and that the piece is not pure gold.<\/p>\n<p>Check The Purity By Inspecting The Karat Grade If you gold item is too small to investigate, use a magnifying glass for better examination. Check the item for the gold purity. The karat grade typically is etched on the piece. Examine your 24 karat gold ring for 24K print. The other possible karat grades are 18 karat, 14 karat, 12 karat or 10 karat gold. Mostly the mark is diminutive and it will be next to impossible to see. For better viewing use a magnifying glass.<\/p>\n<p>Survey The Locket Look circumspectly at the markings of the ornament. If you see a .925 or S.S. it means that your pendant is made of sterling silver. Then again, if you see the S.P. mark, it denotes that pendant is silver plated.<\/p>\n<p>Acid Testing For jewelry buyers, this test may not be the right examination as most retailers will prohibit you to drop any acid tests on their jewelries. But if you are interested to check your jewelries at home, you may do so. First is to prepare your gold piece and a testing stone. On the streak of metal, drop the acid test. Inspect the area for color changes. If testing gold, the streak must change irrelevantly. If you have used a14k gold acid and you did not test it on a 14k gold item, expect it to fade away, demonstrating that the item is below 14K. If the color did not change at all, it signifies that you are testing on a gold piece higher than14K. Then again, if you are testing on a silver piece, use this guideline. The streak or band should change in dark red color if the item is 925 Silver. The streak should change to brown if 800 silver and green if 500 silver.<\/p>\n<p>By A Magnet Use a magnet at home and hold it near your treasured gold jewels. The gold is not pure if the magnet attracts to your jewelries. Consider that gold in itself is non-magnetic and pure gold is enormously soft that is why during manufacturing of gold jewelries other metals or alloys are incorporated to make the jewelry sturdy and heavy wearing.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t require one to have a master&#8217;s degree in metals just to check the genuineness of the jewelries. Follow the tips above if you want to check the authenticity of your items. So that next time you buy a piece of jewelry, you will not just be trapped by the beauty but also the authenticity of the jewelry.<\/p>\n<p>Ready to get paid<a target='_blank' href=\"http:\/\/silverandgoldexchange.com\">cash for silver<\/a> online? Visit the most reliable site to <a target='_blank' href=\"http:\/\/www.silverandgoldexchange.com\/cash-for-silver\/\">cash for silver<\/a> and drop by silverandgoldexchange.com today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a selection of gold and silver jewelries? Do you know how to identify a forgery from a real jewels? Without doubts, jewelries are lovely especially if they are made of gold or silver. Many considered them as great savings. They are not cheap. They can cost hundreds and thousands of dollars depending on its rarity and loveliness. With that said, understanding the legitimacy of silver or gold jewels is very crucial. If you don&#8217;t want your lifetime savings gone to waste because of fake jewelries here are few tips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[838,437,15493,8222,423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7201,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185\/revisions\/7201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grinwebbus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}