[Jewelry making - Article 00611] - Re: [Orchid] First Argentium Sterling Adventure

[Trevor F.]

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Hello Veronica,

>     I'm a little late on this one. What exactly does activating
>     Argentium mean? 

    I don't recall seeing an answer to your question yet so I thought
    I'd volunteer a little info to help you get up to speed. 

    First of all, do try the "Search" facility on the Orchid Archives
    (http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/archive) as that is highly
    likely to give you lots of previous Orchid articles where this topic
    has been discussed before. 

    But to answer your question directly I'll say this: "activating"
    Argentium Sterling (AS) is just a working term we've adopted to mean
    "heat the metal so that the germanium migrates to the surface,
    reacts with oxygen to form germanium dioxide and thereby protect the
    metal from reacting with the atmosphere at it's usual, unwanted
    rate." 

   touchmetal.com/blog/2005/07/heat-treating-your-argentium-sterling.html

    I'd also suggest you take a look at Cynthia Eid's superb technical
    paper on AS at http://www.cynthiaeid.com/argentium_1-5.html 

    Once you've digested that info you'll be well on your way to
    understanding what's what with AS. 

Cheers,
Trevor F.
in The City of Light
Visit TouchMetal.com at http://www.touchmetal.com
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