To date, gold remains one of the most valuable metals on the market, so the number of cases of fake jewelry is increasing daily. The benefit of modern technologies allow you to determine the authenticity of a gold product very accurately and quickly. However, there are such situations when there is no time or opportunity to go to a special service, then You can determine the authenticity of gold and at home.
What is it necessary for?
In fact, most ways will allow you to accurately determine the present in your gold or still fake. It will help you save and time, and money. One of these ways is Check iodine. With such an inspection, it affects the chemical joints of the product and has a reaction.
Iodine is very convenient to check the gold, since only this metal enters such a reaction. After applying a substance for a jewelry on the present gold, a dark spot will appear, it may differ slightly in color in different samples, for example, 375 test This is a dark green stain, and 585 test Color trail dark brown. However, this in any case will be a dark spot.
If the product does not respond to iodine to iodine or the light spot remains, then you have any kind of metal, for example copper or bronze, but not gold.
Check Procedure
Important! To begin with, you should know that for this method of checking, products with precious stones are not suitable.
If you are interested in this method of checking, then you will have to purchase a few things:
- iodine;
- cotton wand or match with a rat (sponge) at the end;
- a small piece of emery paper or any other abrasive;
- If you check small parts or decoration items, you will need a magnifying glass (in order to notice black) and tweezers.
After the preparation of the whole required process of checking at home will take you not more than 5 minutes.
- To start, take the product itself. In this check, it absolutely does not play the roles of "age" of gold and the term of its purification. Most often check for the authenticity of gold 585 samples, since in some cases the decorations from it have an unusual reddish tint, but this does not mean that the product is fake. The point is that quite a lot of ligature add to the alloy.
- Then you need to lose a lightly decoration from the inside for a more accurate reaction with iodine. The roles here also does not play the size of the "rubbed" place, so try the space of the interaction is not very large and less noticeable.
- Next, with the help of a cotton stick or other device, you need to apply a small amount of iodine on the rubbish place. Do not try to apply a lot of substances - so the reaction, of course, will be pronounced more brightly, but it is also a stain to withdraw.
- Well, now it just remains to wait for the metal reaction. If the place where you are drunk in iodine, darkens or, in general, drawn, it means that you are genuine gold. If the substance leaves a trace, but not dark, but light, or does not color the place of interaction at all, it means that you are some of the other metals, and maybe not metal.
How to get rid of stains?
If you have determined that your gold product is really true, you get up to another question about How to now get rid of this dark spot. Actually make it just as easy as checking the gold of iodine. In general, this stain disappears and independently over time, but if you need to remove it urgently, then you can use one of the ways. Let's start with the fact that the stain will not be removed With powder or soap solution.Lime and soda
The oldest and proven by several generations is Method for cleaning lime, soda and salt. You need to take 80-90 g of lime, 30 g of salts and 70 g soda. All this must be mixed in 1 liter of water. And then lower the product from gold to this water for about 1 hour.
With the help of ammonia alcohol
Some use the method of cleaning gold from stains with the help of ammonic alcohol, but there is a number of minuses.
- Vinegar does not always perfectly removes stains, in some cases the trail still remains.
- keep gold in it needed quite a long time to get a good result.
Well, the smell after the ammonia will continue in the apartment for about three days.
Vinegar
Still you can help Acetic Essence or just a table vinegar. When using this method, all open areas of the skin and eye should be protected, since the substance can provoke a chemical burn. Next, take a piece of cotton or cotton disk, moisten it in the essence and rub the stain until it disappears completely. Then rinse the gold in ordinary water and dry well.
Hyposulfit
Also for cleaning, you can use a special substance - hyposulphite, you can buy it in any pharmacy. To clean, stir 1 tablespoon of hyposulfite in a glass of warm or cool water. In this solution, drop the decoration for half an hour. Then rinse in water and dry.
Coca-Cola.
Another proven time of purification is Immersion of the product with a stain from iodine into a container with Coca-Cola . In addition to eliminating the stain, you will also get the cleaning of the product itself from dirt and fat. If the stain fails to be eliminated, you should not despair, you can always attribute to specialists. M. Aster from jewelry salons can remove this stain with special modern means in just a couple of minutes.
You should also know that Check the product with iodine should only be checked if the decoration is made of solid metal alloy . Gold-plated decoration successfully test is unlikely to succeed, as you can simply erase the gilding layer and then the product will need to be in service for an additional gilding procedure. Therefore, after checking, look at the product tag or simply immediately take the decoration to a specialist.
At least the method of checking gold with iodine is one of the most accurate and fast at home, but 100% of the authenticity of the result you do not get. Therefore, if you need a guaranteed product evaluation, take it to the master.
And in order not to think about the fake of the product, buy them in certified stores that you trust and where the decorations check the masters.
How to check gold iodine at home, see the next video.