[Jewelry making - Article 00794] - Re: [Orchid] Super pickle...

[Thomas Janstrom]

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Richard,

    Nickel will melt/alloy with silver, its call nickel silver, and
    although the majority partner in the alloy is nickel the balance is
    silver (IIRC~40%). 

    I do agree that there is no nickel in sterling silver and never was,
    but there are some pretty weird proprietary alloys out there, so I
    wouldn't rule out a nickel bearing silver based jewellery alloy, even
    if I haven't actually seen any other alloys in common use than nickel
    silver! 

    Having said that I did question whether nickel could contaminate
    pickle and I thought it wasn't possible, but that I was unsure. And
    yes nickel is one of the "magnetic" metals along with iron, cobalt,
    neodymium, yttrium and some others used in ceramic high strength
    magnets. That it isn't magnetic "out of the box" but has to be
    magnetised/sensitised does make it unlikely that what was observed is
    nickel. BTW liquide oxygen is also a "magnetic" element, specifically
    it's paramagnetic, and will be held by a strong magnetic field, funny
    to see a liquid hovering between the poles of a partial loop magnet.
    (Think of a horse shoe magnet bent all the way round so the poles are
    only 3/4" apart.) 

    Ok so now this is getting rather off topic so I'll let it go now. 

Cheers, Thomas.
Janstrom Designs.
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