Silver Benefits — SilverS

Sil­ver is a fair­ly pop­u­lar met­al that has been used by peo­ple for many cen­turies. The first prod­ucts made of this met­al were cre­at­ed more than 6 thou­sand years ago. For some nations, it was sil­ver that sym­bol­ized wealth and pros­per­i­ty. Do not for­get that this met­al is not only a jew­el­ry mate­r­i­al. It is often used in var­i­ous indus­tries relat­ed to the man­u­fac­ture of com­put­ers, tele­phones and tele­vi­sions. But, of course, it is the jew­el­ry world that is most close­ly asso­ci­at­ed with the pre­cious met­al.

Advantages of silver products

Sil­ver jew­el­ry nev­er goes out of style. What is the secret of their pop­u­lar­i­ty? The answer is sim­ple: in numer­ous advan­tages, which include:

• the cost of prod­ucts — sil­ver jew­el­ry is much more afford­able than any oth­er acces­sories made of pre­cious met­als;
• prod­ucts are well suit­ed for peo­ple with any type of appear­ance;
• har­mo­nizes well with var­i­ous pre­cious and semi-pre­cious stones;
• sim­ple prod­uct care does not take much time;
• sil­ver is a hypoal­ler­genic met­al;
• the pos­si­bil­i­ty of cre­at­ing exclu­sive designs;
• high anti­sep­tic prop­er­ties;
• has a ben­e­fi­cial effect on the human body;
• the pos­si­bil­i­ty of com­bin­ing pre­cious met­al prod­ucts with any style of cloth­ing.

Silver features

Sil­ver is a met­al that occurs nat­u­ral­ly in nuggets. Some of them reach gigan­tic pro­por­tions. Under the action of oxy­gen, the met­al does not oxi­dize. But over time, it can dark­en and cov­er with a small shell from inter­ac­tion with moist air.

Sil­ver is a refrac­to­ry met­al. It lends itself well to machin­ing. Numer­ous mas­ter­pieces of jew­el­ry art can be cre­at­ed from this noble met­al. It is suit­able for numer­ous pro­cess­ing tech­niques, includ­ing:

• pol­ish­ing;
• stretch­ing;
• twist­ing;
• cut­ting.

The met­al has one draw­back — it is quite soft. There­fore, in order for the prod­ucts to be stronger and more wear-resis­tant, cop­per is added to the com­po­si­tion. Thanks to its pres­ence, the alloy is more ver­sa­tile and prac­ti­cal.

Types of silver

Each of us knows that the best sil­ver is 925 met­al. It is often also called ster­ling. It is wide­ly used to cre­ate jew­el­ry, dish­es, var­i­ous coins. Var­i­ous met­al fin­ish­ing meth­ods have made it pos­si­ble to cre­ate dif­fer­ent types of such met­al.

Rho­di­at­ed Sil­ver has a bright white sheen due to a spe­cial lay­er of white rhodi­um. Jew­el­ry made of such met­al does not dark­en, does not grow dull and is not scratched. There­fore, if you are look­ing for a durable jew­el­ry with an attrac­tive design, you should def­i­nite­ly pay atten­tion to this option.

oxi­dized sil­ver is no less pop­u­lar. The relief prod­uct is treat­ed with sul­fur and then pol­ished. The result is an amaz­ing inter­weav­ing of light areas with dark ones, which acquire an unusu­al vin­tage effect. The most pop­u­lar oxi­dized sil­ver in the form of rings and bracelets.

black­ened sil­ver is very sim­i­lar to oxi­dized, but a spe­cial solu­tion and heat are used to cre­ate it. The prod­uct must be pol­ished and pol­ished. The result is a beau­ti­ful and noble dec­o­ra­tion with the effect of antiq­ui­ty.

Mat­te sil­ver is a mod­ern mate­r­i­al. With the help of stamp­ing or pro­cess­ing with quartz sand, gloss is removed from the met­al sur­face and rough­ness is added. Most often, mat­te sil­ver is used to cre­ate jew­el­ry and sou­venirs.

Gild­ed sil­ver is no less pop­u­lar among con­nois­seurs of jew­el­ry art. Thanks to the gold plat­ing, such prod­ucts do not fade and do not cor­rode. The noble appear­ance of prod­ucts is the main advan­tage of apply­ing gild­ing.