[Jewelry making - Article 00065] - Re: [Orchid] Cloisonne Enameling on Cast Silver

[Allan Heywood]

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    but Sterling is really just means a  standard that contains 92.5%
    silver. What the other 7.5% is doesn't matter legally 

    Jack, Sterling silver is always and only, 92.5% silver and 7.5%
    copper. Adding any amount of any other element in excess of the
    accepted level for "trace" elements makes it another alloy. 

    Using your logic, if one were to add (to use a ridiculous figure )
    100 gm of lead to 100 gm of 24k gold you would still have 24k gold ! 

Al Heywood

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