Silver : about 925 silver

Posted by admin on May 12, 2009

We usually do concern about the purity of the jewellry that we’ll wear, for example, ‘999′ stands for 24k gold, ‘750′ stands for 18k alloy gold. In the same way, silver jewellry also have the numeric standards for its purity.as a customer, should know a little about it when you buy a present for someone, and insist that the piece of jewelry you are after conforms to this standard.

After the first set of the 925 silver was published by Tiffany in 1851, the 925 silver began to be widely popular. In nowadays, the 925 silve become the standard of appraising of silver jewellries.

99 silver
99 stands for pure silver, though in theory 100% is Pure, but actually it is very hard to get the purity of 100% (usually 100% just means to an extent). 99 silver is in pale white and very soft. The jewelry made of 99 silver is easy to become deformed and can’t be made as jewelry that can embed precious stones.it is extremely malleable and it can suffer damage easily.

98 silver
98 silver stands for sufficient silver, it is blended with 98% silver and 2% copper, will be marked as 980S on jewelry.

925 silver
925 silver is a blending mix contained 92.5% silver and 7.5% copper. It is marked 925 on jewelry. Almost all the silver jewelry is made by 925 silver. By adding copper to silver, craftsmen have managed to obtain a highly reliable alloy that is successfully used in the jewelry industry,One may think that by adding other metals to pure silver, the quality becomes lower. But this is not the case with 925 silver. This alloy enhances the jewelry properties and copper is only a very small part in the combination. The luster of the 925 silver jewelry becomes very beautiful and aslo, the silver gained the hardness that are more resistant to scratching and damage. It is able to embed precious stones to make more complex jewelries.