Jewelry business is one of the most beautiful and profitable businesses of the world, gold, silver, gemstones - all this skillfully processed and connected together attracts many millions of fans of jewelry and products from precious metals.
Today buyers can seldom see jewelry from silver with a brand of the 916th test, big distribution, despite similarity of characteristics, received alloy 925. The test silver 916 which was very popular several decades ago gradually passed into the background, was forced out by other metals and tests.
Silver in plates
The lowest test at silver - the 712th. It is alloy which has no more than 72% of silver and differs in a yellowish shade.
It is possible to find silver of this test often on pieces of house utensils, such as tableware and gift drinkable sets. Alloy 916 of test is structure from 91.6 percent of silver, the rest is a copper. The received material has high melting and anticorrosive characteristics, has white color and can quite be used both for production of objects of use, and for creation of the first in beauty jewelry of the most refined forms.
Not favorable metal
Silver of this test rather inexpensive, budgetary material, its cost is ten times cheaper, than the cost of such precious metals as gold or platinum, it is explained by rather low prices of purchase which actually do not change eventually. For this reason sale and extraction of such metal is considered not really favorable. Despite this, the tableware having often decorative character, decorated with refined drawings and inlaid with inscriptions and engravings not only does not lose, and rather, on the contrary, grows in the price and gains the increasing and great popularity. It is explained not by increase in the price of the used material, but skill, skilfulness and a subtlety of work of the jewelry master who got down to business.
Physical characteristics of metal
Products from silver 916 of test have no magnetic properties and are resistant to attrition, for many years keeping the beauty and appeal. It is necessary to remember that silver rather soft and at the same time strong metal subject to deformation at use of strong pressure.
Silver surpasses gold in chemical physical properties. This metal has low reactionary ability, is not subject to alkaline influence, it is strong and is perfectly interfaced to other metals.
Now the products from test silver 916 covered by a layer of special enamel enter fashion, getting such product in a gift or individual use, it is necessary to pay attention to the test crowning a product or its elements which is capable to save the buyer from a substandard fake.