Gold or Silver? Which do you prefer to buy?
By Abbypia
@Abbyey (760)
Philippines
May 7, 2007 12:48pm CST
There are some parts in our country that have lots of snatcher,robbers & thieves. Before i love GOLD jewelries but a lot of my friends experienced a lot of "robberies and "hold-up" when they are at the mall or any crowded areas. However SILVEr jewelries are not much too them. Even White Gold does not catch their attention. So i prefered those jewelries. I wear the GOLD in special occassions but with my daily routine i prefer silver more.
How about you? What jewelries do your prefer to use daily and also for special occassions?
3 responses
@limcyjain (3516)
• India
7 May 07
I love to wear gold or diamond jewellery. I rarely wear any silver jewelery. Fear of theft is everywhere but that does not stop me from wearing gold jewelery. I do take care of what i am wearing and have not experienced any bad event till date. On special occasions i wear diamonds but for general use i wear jewellery having coloured stomes studded in gold. I lile to wear jewellery which matches my clothes. I have a range to choose from small sets in different colours.
@steerforth (1797)
• Italy
7 May 07
I prefer gold in all occasions.
Gold is the most malleable and ductile metal; a single gram can be beaten into a sheet of one square meter, or an ounce into 300 square feet. Gold readily forms alloys with many other metals. These alloys can be produced to increase the hardness or to create exotic colors. Adding copper yields a redder metal, iron blue, aluminium purple, platinum white, and natural bismuth and silver alloys produce black. Native gold contains usually eight to ten percent silver, but often much more — alloys with a silver content over 20% are called electrum. As the amount of silver increases, the color becomes whiter and the specific gravity becomes lower.
Gold is a good conductor of heat and electricity, and is not affected by air and most reagents. Heat, moisture, oxygen, and most corrosive agents have very little chemical effect on gold, making it well-suited for use in coins and jewelry; conversely, halogens will chemically alter gold, and aqua regia dissolves it by virtue of the elemental chlorine generated by this acid mixture.




