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GLOSSARY
This glossary is designed to help you in understanding the terminology used in
Our Simple Guide, Fine Jewelry you can clean in The Jewelry Spa
Important:
Read this first before you use The Jewelry Spa it will help you:
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Understand how our simple guide works in helping you identify your own
personal types of jewelry to be cleaning in The Jewelry Spa.
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Which of the three steps you will be using. This will ensure simple, safe
and effective results in the cleaning of the jewelry.
Platinum
A silver-white highly reflective precious metal. One of the main advantages of
platinum for jewelry fabrication is its strength and resistance to tarnish.
Gold
A soft, yellow, corrosion-resistant metal, gold is generally alloyed to increase
its strength. This is known as Karat Gold (Karat). Karat is a unit of measure
for the fineness of gold, equal to 1/24 part. Pure gold is 24 karat; gold that is
50 percent pure is 12 Karat or 50.0, 10 Karat is 41.7 , 14 Karat is 58.5, 18
Karat is 75.0, 22 Karat is 91.3
Silver - Sterling Silver
A lustrous white metallic element, silver is highly valued for jewelry, tableware,
and other ornamental use and is widely used in coinage, photography, dental
and soldering alloys, electrical contacts and printed circuits. Sterling Silver is
an alloy of 92.5 percent silver with copper or another metal. That is the reason
Sterling Silver is stamped 925.
Titanium
A strong, low-density, highly corrosion-resistant, lustrous gray-white metallic
element that is used to alloy aircraft metals for low weight, strength and high-
temperature stability. Now also used in jewelry manufacturing with gemstones.
Stainless Steel
Any of various steels alloyed with at least 10 percent chromium and sometimes
containing other elements and that are resistant to corrosion or rusting
associated with exposure to water and moist air.