Unfortunately, many swindlers who wish to profit on other people meet presently, for example, giving aluminum and other metals for precious materials. Not to get on their rod, it is necessary to know how it is possible to distinguish silver from a fake. It is possible to make it and in house conditions.
How to distinguish silver from aluminum?
There are several simple methods which will help to understand, whether ornament, precious before you, or a thing. For example, it is possible to bring a magnet to metal. Silver to it will not be attracted.
It is also possible to try to lower a thing or ornament in usual acetic acid. Silver does not react with it, and here aluminum begins to be dissolved in such environment.
Still it is possible to try to lower in hot water the ornament and a thing which is at the same time raising doubts which is precisely made of aluminum. Having pulled out them, compare their temperature. Precious metal heats up much quicker, than aluminum. It is, of course, not the most reliable way, but it helps too, both to distinguish the real silver from a fake, and to define whether ornament is hollow. If this is so, then in water the thing falls by a bottom of a glass or bowl much more slowly.
How to distinguish silver from silvering?
It is rather simple to define similar fakes. Take a usual sewing needle and scratch a product a little. If you see dark or red color in the place of damage, then the thing is simply covered with a layer of precious metal, and not made of it in any way. As a rule, the sellers confident in quality of the goods will not object to such test.
Also look at test of a product, it has to stand in two places. Figures have to be 925. Any other designations if, of course, before you not ornament with stones, have to be absent.
Now we will talk volume how to distinguish silver from zinc in house conditions. For this purpose just take tincture of iodine and apply a small drop on a thing. Precious material will not react to similar actions in any way, and here zinc and alloys with it will turn blue. To be saved from swindlers, try not to buy jewelry and things from precious metals in doubtful outlets or from hands. As a rule, jewelry workshops and shops with good reputation do not trade in fakes. If the person precisely wants to know what the product is made of, then it is necessary to address the jeweler who can not only define metal, but also estimate its quality.