Cleaning Your Silver Jewelry

This approach to cleaning silver does not result in any loss of silver.   It also works well for woven silver items. The tarnish that forms on silver pieces is silver sulfide, which is black. A thin coating of silver sulfide on silver will darken the silver surface. Cleaning the silver using most cleaning methods removes…

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Cleaning Jewelry

Silver, even fine silver, will eventually tarnish.  The tarnish that forms on silver pieces is silver sulfide, which is black. A thin coating of silver sulfide on silver will darken the silver surface. Cleaning the silver using most cleaning methods removes the silver sulfide coating, but polishing and most jewelry cleaners also remove some silver…

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