jeudi 20 septembre 2012

What is Palladium?

By Ronald James


The usage of palladium in jewelry business was first recorded back in 1939. Palladium is not completely new within the jewelry industry and palladium has some history. As Palladium lies in the family of Platinum Group Metals or PGM's, it's also mined and extracted from the same mineral deposits as platinum and sometime even gold. In terms of physical and chemical properties Palladium has remarkable resemblance to platinum because it is a part of platinum family. Palladium has similar lustrous silver while color like platinum and it is ideal to be used in jewelry.

Nevertheless, there's significant distinction in between both the metal. Palladium is very hard metal, that is 12% harder than platinum. Similarly Palladium is also 40% lighter than Platinum. As palladium is manufactured from 95-100% pure palladium, the jewelry is hypoallergenic. What this essentially indicates is Palladium is the perfect metal for people with sensitive or irritable skin. Due to this kind of benefits, it is being utilized in jewelry like engagement and wedding ring styles and getting popular among jewelry producers.

The purity of the platinum is the major reason behind its recognition. Similarly, consumers are attracted towards Palladium in the same way as platinum because it's a purer material that's not fabricated or artifical. Another benefit of Palladium is, it is very light metal. When put next with platinum, it is 40% less heavily. These characteristics make Palladium an thrilling metal to work with. Likewise, it could be used to set larger stones in designer jewelry and the piece will not even feel overly hefty to put on as it is lot less dense.

Gold must be alloyed with a number of white metals such as palladium, nickel and silver to make white gold. Nevertheless, with 18ct white gold being 75% gold and 25% alloy, it is impossible to turn gold a pure white color. Therefore, the white colour we all know so well of the white gold is produced by electro-plating with Rhodium. Over time nevertheless, this rhodium-plating wears off, leading customers to think their gold has "tarnished". Palladium jewelry by no means loses its color as it is a natural white metal and does not need rhodium plating.

Palladium is a valuable metal preferably suited to engagement rings and wedding bands, yet is also a cost-effective metal. What better time to make investments in a ring right now, when the costs are low and palladium rings are still unique.




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