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Silver Purity & The Global Market

We love informed customers over here so with that said, let's get into this quick silver informational! First up? It's important to know that silver in its purest form can be very soft and pliable. To strengthen it and make it user friendly for jewelry and a host of other uses, another metal is typically added to silver to serve as a strengthener. Almost always, the additional metal used is copper. Case in point, the Tuareg tribe bangles above from the Q.A.C webstore. Made of silver, they also have coper added. As mentioned, this not only strengthen the bangles (preventing them from being super malleable and breaking apart), but it gives them a pretty, ever so light golden undertone.

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tags: accessories, silver, silver purity, global accessories, fashion anthropology, taureg silver, tuareg silver accessories, Egyptian silver
categories: Queen Adwoa's Closet, Fashion Anthropology, Culture, Accessories, African Fashion
Monday 12.12.16
Posted by Angela Barimah, Owner of Queen Adwoa's Closet
 

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