The easiest way to identify silver or silverware

Look at the color: The higher the purity, the whiter the silver, and the surface of the jewelry will look even shiny and polished. If it contains lead, the jewelry will take on a blue-gray color; If copper is contained, the surface of the jewelry will appear rough and the color will not have a sense of moisture.

Weight: **Slightly denser than common metals, generally speaking: "light aluminum, heavy silver, not light and not heavy copper."

Therefore, the weight can be preliminarily judged whether it is **. If the jewelry is large in size and light in weight, it can be preliminarily judged that the jewelry belongs to other metals.

Check the hardness: **The hardness is lower than copper, and larger than lead and tin, you can use a pin to scratch the inconspicuous place of the jewelry for testing, if the needle is slippery, it is difficult to leave traces on the surface, it can be judged to be copper jewelry; If it is lead and tin texture, the traces are obvious and prominent; If there are traces of the physical object and it is not obvious, it can be preliminarily judged to be ** jewelry.

Listen to the sound rhyme: Sterling silver jewelry has a sound on the ground, no elasticity, and the sound is "Porphyry". The lower the color, the lower the sound, and the sharper and higher the voice, the higher and rhyme; If it is copper, its voice is higher and sharper, and the rhyme is rapid and short; If it is made of lead or tin, the sound of throwing the ground is dull, short, and has no elasticity.

According to its fineness, silver jewelry can be divided into sterling silver, patterned silver and colored silver from high to low.

According to the processing method, it can be divided into cast silver, cast silver and silver fine work.

The identification of silver jewelry can also be used to look at the color, test hardness and elasticity, weigh weight, listen to the rhyme, reagent testing and other methods. Silver jewelry with a fineness of 97 or more, the skin is white and delicate, and the luster is soft and pleasant; The skin color of those with low fineness is pale or grayish, sometimes yellow, black and other variegated colors, and the color is dim and dull.

How to identify silver or silverware???

First of all, make a statement: only use the ordinary methods around you to test the silver, only one can be detected, if you want to identify accurately, you still need to go to a professional quality inspection center for identification. There are a few small ways to do this.

1. Put a drop of bleach on the silverware. Take a closer look at the changes that occur on the surface of the silverware. If the silverware immediately darkens or turns black, then the silverware is of higher purity.

Because silver is highly oxidizing, silverware can immediately become dull as soon as it comes into contact with an oxidizing agent like bleach.

2. Use coins to do a sound test. Silverware makes a pleasant bell-like sound when it is collided with other metals, especially when it collides with other metals. If you want to do this test, you must first find a coin issued during the Ming and Qing dynasties, because most of the coins issued during that period were silver, and in New China, the coins were mostly nickel.

Silver coins have a crisp sound when struck, while nickel coins have a dull sound when struck.

Be gentle with your hands and feet, especially with coins, as it is easy to leave a mark on the silverware. If the silverware makes a crisp sound, it means that it is **; If it is a dull sound, then it is likely that the silverware is mixed with many other metals.

I hope this helps, thank you for your interest!

The easiest way to identify silverware is to look at the mark, check the hardness, and measure the acidity.

1.How to look at the sign.

There will be a silver mark on the inside or at the interface of the silverware, indicating the purity of the jewelry; Such as S925, S990, etc. (S925 refers to silver jewelry with about purity, and the same goes for S990). If there is no marking, be careful if it's just plain metal plating, etc.

2.How to check the hardness.

Judging the authenticity of silverware can be seen by the hardness, the texture of real silverware is soft, and it will be bent when it is slightly folded, and it has the characteristics of easy to break and not easy to break. Counterfeit silver is relatively hard and is not easy to bend, and can even be broken if you use too much force. This method has been widely used by people for thousands of years, and it is often seen in costume movies that people who love money like life receive silver dollars and bite them with their teeth, which is actually testing the hardness.

3.Methods for measuring acidity.

Solid silver will change color and even dissolve when exposed to any acid. If a drop of concentrated hydrochloric acid is placed on the inside of the silver jewelry, a white moss-like silver chloride precipitate is immediately formed. This is not the case with other ***.

Two uses of silverware.

1. Jewelry. Ethnic minorities are very fond of silver jewelry, the role of jewelry, has long been more than makeup, but also symbolizes the longevity of love, the stability of marriage and family, family power and transmission, the recognition of the elders to the younger generations, the descendants of the ancestors and the possession of social status or wealth, etc., in the dense forest of Chinese national clothing, Yunnan silver jewelry is a more attractive branch!

2. Use as currency.

Historically, as the legal tender (currency raw material) of many countries in the world, it has the function of financial reserves, and it has also been an important means of international payment. China has a long history of understanding and utilizing **, which has long been made into crafts and currency. It is understood that the currency function of the silver two in the history of the country began before the Han Dynasty and after the Tang and Song dynasties, the currency began to be used in large quantities, and the silver coins before the Sui and Tang dynasties were called "silver cakes."''The "silver wat" bed gold period is called "silver ingot", and the Yuan Dynasty is called "ingot".