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Can you quickly identify the five common earring materials?
1.Silver
Full silver jewelry (pure silver, 925 silver) are silver products reaching an overall silver content of 92.5%.
In the current market, silver products are basically made of 925 silver and 999 silver, while daily silver jewelry is basically 925 silver.
Silver is relatively soft, so silver products are easy to deform. When silver needles are bent, you can straighten them by yourself.
If the overall color of sterling silver product is gold or rose gold, it is a gold-plated product.
It is made of silver and has a gold plating layer on the outside, making it discolored.
Silver is very easy to oxidize and get blackened in the air, which is normal for silver products.
You can use a silver cloth to directly wipe or use toothpaste with water to clean the surface.
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3.Gold-plated copper
These jewelry are made of copper, with the outside plated with gold or silver.
If the gold-plated copper jewelry is properly maintained daily, it can keep the color for half a year to two years.
It belongs to the medium high-end jewelry, and the price is cheaper than that of pure silver.
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4. Pearls
High quality pearls: the color of high-quality artificial pearls are mighty good.
Freshwater pearls: there are growth lines on natural freshwater pearls which can be classified into round and baroque style
Shell pearls: Most of the shell pearls we use are orbicular. It is because freshwater pearls are not in perfect round that shell pearls need to be reshaped after grinding.
5.Titanium steel
This kind of jewelry will not be oxidized and deform easily. And the difficulty to deform is also it’s shortcoming.
The silver titanium steel jewelry is grayish and the gold ones are plated with a layer of gold.
It is generally darker than normal gold, and it will not fade if you wear it for a long time or taking bath with it, but the color will darken.
The metal-plated layer can be classified into alloy plating, real gold plating, platinum plated, 14k gold plating, and 18k gold plating.