| 10 facts about affordable gold or rhodium plaited | | | | Rhodium make it suitable for jewellery products. |
| jewellery that is suitable for both casual wear and for | | | | * Rhodium flashing is known in the jewellery trade as |
| special occasions, and which does not have to be | | | | the process of electroplating; whereby a white gold |
| stored in a vault! | | | | metal is placed in a rhodium salt solution and when an |
| * A gemstone is a mineral that has been cut or | | | | electrical current is passed through the metal the |
| faceted then polished, examples of gemstones are | | | | white gold is coated with a thin layer of rhodium. This |
| quartz, jasper, amethyst, Ruby and Malachite. | | | | process gives the rhodium plaited metal a highly |
| * Facets are flat faces on geometric shapes, that | | | | reflective white surface. |
| either occur naturally in crystalline structures or as in | | | | * Rhodium has a Moh's hardness of 6 compared to |
| the case of gemstones are cut into them to improve | | | | Silver and Gold that both have a Moh's hardness of |
| their appearance. Faceting is usually applied to | | | | just 2.5. |
| transparent gemstones. | | | | * Cutting is usually applied to opaque gemstones that |
| * The Moh's scale of mineral hardness characterises | | | | are impenetrable to visible light while faceting is mainly |
| the scratch resistance of minerals through the ability | | | | carried out on transparent gems. As softer |
| of a harder material to scratch a softer one. | | | | gemstones are more readily scratched so they are |
| * Softer gemstones with a Moh's hardness scale of | | | | shaped and polished in order to reduce any visible |
| less than 7 are easily scratched by dust and grit. On | | | | signs of scratching. |
| the Moh scale a window pane has a Moh scale rating | | | | * Rhodium belongs to the group of Platinum metals |
| of 5.5, whilst Quartz is 7, Topaz is 8, and Diamond is | | | | and is considered to be an even more precious metal |
| 10. In fact Diamond is fifteen times more harder than | | | | than silver. |
| quartz. | | | | * By definition, a Cabouchon is a gemstone that has |
| * Rhodium is a hard silvery white and durable metal | | | | been shaped and polished making attractive jewellery |
| with a high reflectance. The reflective properties of | | | | for all occasions. |