When you own sterling silver jewelry, it’s important to take proper care of your precious metals to ensure that they are there to shine with you for a lifetime. Afterall, your jewelry is a reflection of your fantastic style.
Rhodium is a precious metal that's part of the platinum group. Rhodium plating gives our sterling silver cubic zirconia jewelry the look of platinum. With this plating, it is very difficult for the untrained eye to distinguish between rhodium plated sterling silver and platinum jewelry.
Fine silver (99.9% pure) is generally too soft for producing jewelry so it is combined with other metals, usually copper to produce a more durable silver. Sterling silver is an alloy of silver that contains 92.5 percent silver and 7.5 percent copper.
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