White Gold Causes Nickel Allergies
White Gold Causes Nickel Allergies There are very few metals that you can safely wear as jewelry, the list is very small and you know their names: silver, gold and platinum. Silver and platinum are both white metals with silver being the most reflective individual substance in the universe, reflecting back up to 99% of all visible light, which is why we use it to create mirrors to this day, nothing is more reflective. The only problem with silver is that it does develop a silver sulfide layer on the surface that we call tarnish, but that can be reversed with a redux reaction using baking soda, salt, aluminum foil and boiling water, or can be polished off with a jeweler’s cloth. Platinum reflects back around 80% of the light when freshly created, but will often develop a matte finish over time, which leads designers to coat it with rhodium, another metal from the Platinum group that is harder and also reflects back around 80% looking like Chrome. In the mid-century designers like Harry ...