[Jewelry making - Article 00887] - Re: [Orchid] Super pickle...

[James Binnion]

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>     So if it is "rare" then I wasn't completely off the mark then? ie
>     such things do exist. 

    I used rare rather than none just because I am not 100 percent
    certain that some of these fancy no-low tarnish alloys might have
    traces of nickel in them but I have not seen any. The only silver
    alloy I know of that has nickel in it is a solder that is used for
    silver brazing stainless steel and contains 2% nickel the balance
    being silver 50%, copper 28% and zinc 20%. I do not know of any
    sterling alloys that contain nickel. It is so hard to get any nickel
    in the alloy as it just will not alloy with silver. At best you
    would end up with a two phase alloy. For example if you used copper
    to hold the nickel in the mix then you would end up with mostly
    silver-copper matrix with random areas of copper-nickel not a uniform
    distribution. 

James Binnion
jbin AT mokume-gane.com
James Binnion Metal Arts
http://www.mokume-gane.com
360-756-6550
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