Barsky's jewelry is crafted by some of the purest and finest quality platinum ore available. Platinum is the leading metal used to make jewelry pieces today. By far it is rarer than gold and is said to be approximately 35 times harder to acquire. The natural color of platinum is white, which can be polished to a hign shine and is roughly 95% pure and weighs almost twice that of white or yellow gold
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One of the most famous traits about platinum is its durability over white and yellow gold. With regular metals like gold everyday wear causes the metal to become scratched and blemished. While with platinum this is not the case. Once gold is scratched or scuffed, it must be re-polished for it to return to its original luster. On each occasion this happens a layer of gold has to be striped in order to polish the metal to its original state. Because of the hardness of platinum, these scuffs happen quite infrequently to gold.. When it does become tarnished simply soaking and rebuffing may be all thats needed.
Platinum has two unquie categories 950 or 900 Plat. A 950 Plat. jewelry piece is 95 percent pure platinum, and 5 percent iridium or palladium alloy. While a 900 Plat. is 90 percent pure platinum and 10 percent iridium. For guaranteed quality in platinum, look for the marks 950 Plat or Plat.
