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Question: I want to buy a 14k solid gold Tiffani type bracelet, how can I know if it is real?

Answer: Well, are you buying it somewhere else? Go buy the Tiffany ...

Well, are you buying it somewhere else? Go buy the Tiffany bracelet IN TIFFANY and Co. Haha. Then you will surely know it's the real thing.

Answer: all real gold have a stamp some where on the jewelry ...

all real gold have a stamp some where on the jewelry indicating how many karats there are so look probably in the inside of the bracelet and it should have 14k stamped in there

Answer: Well first off 14K is NOT solid gold. Solid gold is 22 carat ...

Well first off 14K is NOT solid gold. Solid gold is 22 carat and considered too soft for jewelry as a 22K gold bracelet can be easily bent and twisted with the fingers. Other metals are added to provide hardness. The more thats added the lower the carat value of the gold. It should be stamped 10K, 14K or 18K depending on what the formulation is. If it isn't marked it's probably gold plated. If you buy it from a reputable jewelry store it should be as represented. They have to maintain their reputations.

Question: what is the value of a 12k gold bracelet?

Answer: That depends on the weight of the bracelet and quality of ...

That depends on the weight of the bracelet and quality of the workmanship. Edited to add... your best bet is to take it to a jeweler and get it appraised.

Question: I have a 9ct gold bracelet with the numbers 375 written on it?

Answer: The question would be?

The question would be?

Answer: The 357 is just an identification number for 9ct gold.

The 357 is just an identification number for 9ct gold.

Question: HELP!!! MY 22k YELLOW GOLD BRACELET AND NECKLACE HAVE TURNED GRAY!!!! WHAT SHOULD AND CAN BE DONE???

i just put my frequently-worn and favorite bracelet and necklace in the dresser drawer. Before going on a week-long beach vacation, my son broke the thermometer and said that he had already cleaned it up. I had no idea he just put the mess in an envelope and placed it in the same drawer. when we came back, my bracelet and necklace were all gray!!! where have the gold gone! can I still save it? thank you so much for any helpful advice.

Answer: try using jewellry cleaner or nail polish remover

try using jewellry cleaner or nail polish remover

Answer: THAT MEANS THE GOLD "PAINT" HAVE FALLEN OFF. THAT ...

THAT MEANS THE GOLD "PAINT" HAVE FALLEN OFF. THAT MEANS ITS NOT REAL.

Answer: Jewelry cleaner may not get it all off. A similar thing ...

Jewelry cleaner may not get it all off. A similar thing happened tomom and she took it to a local jeweler and they cleaned in in some special cleaning machine and it looked good as new.

Answer: jewlerly cleaner and that means its not real gold if it ...

jewlerly cleaner and that means its not real gold if it turned gray or take it to a jeweler they know how to fix these kinds of things

Answer: First of all you need to remember that mercury is a poison ...

First of all you need to remember that mercury is a poison and very toxic to humans. I hope you did not dispose of the mercury in your every day trash. Second you need to take your bracelet to a reputable jeweler to see if it can be salvaged. Please handle it with gloves, it has mercury all over it. I have attached a few things for you to know about mercury and how it interacts with gold. Toxicity Mercury like all heavy metals is toxic. It behaves just like other heavy metals such as Lead, Copper, Arsenic, Zinc, etc. Heavy metals have the characteristic of not being easily excreted from the body. If you ingest a large amount of Mercury for example it will stay in your body for a long time. If you ingest a little Mercury each day it will accumulate in your body until if, you take no action, it could produce toxic symptoms such as hair loss etc. Mercury has a relatively high vapor pressure, which means that at normal temperatures if you left a bowl of mercury out in the air a significant amount would vaporize and would be in the air. If you continued to breathe this Mercury containing air you certainly would ingest a significant amount of Mercury. The most dangerous thing about Mercury is that the lungs readily absorb the vapors. This you must avoid. So far as I can determine metallic Mercury is only slowly absorbed through the skin or mucous membranes. In fact, Mercury in various forms has been used for medical purposes for 100?s of years. How many of you have used mercurichrome or merthiolate to disinfect cuts etc or to swab out a sore throat? There was at one time a much-used medicine called "Blue Pill or Blue Mass" which was a mixture of metallic Mercury and honey. Merck Index states " occasional swallowing of Mercury is without harm". I am not saying that Mercury is not toxic. It definitely is but so is almost any chemical that you come in contact with; It is just a matter of amount. There are a few precautions that you must follow when working with Mercury. These will be discussed in a following section. What I'm trying to say is that Mercury deserves respect but not fear. It has taken a very bad rap at the hands of the do-gooders whose only knowledge of ,or experience with it is that they once took their temperature with a rectal thermometer. If any one of you feel that you have a problem with heavy metal poisoning, hair loss, loose teeth, kidney damage, muscle tremors etc please have a check for heavy metal intoxication. It?s simple and inexpensive. If you have a problem there is a treatment which involves infusing EDTA (ethylene diamine tetracetic acid) into your blood. This is a treatment known as "chelation" and it will very effectively remove the heavy metals from your system. Precautions When working with Mercury always use latex gloves, it?s cheap and is good procedure. Always store Mercury in tightly closed containers (not Aluminum). Always put a layer of water on top of the Mercury unless it is charged Mercury. Never heat Mercury or amalgam in an enclosed space. If you must heat Mercury do it in the outdoors or a well-ventilated space. Always stand upwind of hot mercury. Do not breathe the fumes. Do not let Mercury contact Aluminum. It will destroy it. Avoid spilling mercury. It is very difficult to clean up. Never heat Mercury indoors or in any enclosed space. Never try to distill (retort) Mercury in a glass retort. How to Clean Mercury The term "clean" can mean different things to different people. It can mean simply Mercury that has no black crud floating around on top of it, or, it can mean that the Mercury is mirror bright, silvery without the usual yellow film of mercuric oxide floating on top. Or, it can mean that the Mercury is pure Mercury and contains no other metals dissolved in it. In order to remove the usual black crud that inevitably floats around on top of your Mercury is very simple. Get yourself a funnel and a coffee filter. Take the round filter and fold it in half twice. Open it so that one side has one layer of paper and the other has three layers. Put this cone filter in the funnel. Now take a pin or needle and put a very small hole in the very tip of the paper. Pour in your cruddy Mercury. The Mercury should pass through the filter in tiny drops. If it does not pass through, open the hole just a bit. If it runs through in a steady stream, the hole is too big and you will have to start over. This method will remove all of the floating oxides etc and give you Mercury that you can work with. Second. If you have Mercury that has other metals amalgamated in it and is sort of thick with what appears to be "clots" floating around on it you can filter these amalgam clots by several methods. The first and easiest is to purchase a syringe (10 ml or larger) from the drug store. Make a ball of absorbent cotton and push it into the bottom of the syringe. Push in the plunger to pack it as tightly as possible. Pour in your Mercury and force it slowly through the cotton with the syringe plunger. The residue on the cotton will contain most of the amalgams including Gold. Probably the best way to recover the amalgamated metals including gold is to simply take the cotton ball from the syringe and burn it with a propane torch or other. Be sure you are outside or in a well ventilated space. A second way to remove amalgamated materials from Mercury is to squeeze it through a piece of chamois. Be sure to wear gloves when using this method. This method is somewhat cleaner than the cotton filter in that the amalgam usually separates from the chamois and you eliminate the need to incinerate the cotton. How Amalgamation Works I get a distinct idea that most folks have a distorted idea of just how amalgamation works. First of all, the way we in the gold business talk about amalgam is a bit of a misnomer. A true amalgam is when one metal is actually dissolved in another in which case we would not be able to filter out the gold from our amalgamated concentrates. It would simply pass right through the filter. We normally utilize the unique properties of partially amalgamated gold in order to recover it easily. Visualize a gold particle like a golf ball. When it comes in contact with mercury the mercury begins to dissolve in the gold. Now we have a gold particle with a layer of mercury sticking to its surface because of the very high surface tension of mercury. The mercury will now continue to dissolve in the gold and penetrate deeper into the particle. This process, however, is rather slow and the deeper it penetrates the slower it goes. Yes, if you have enough mercury and enough time the gold will eventually dissolve into the mercury (or vice/versa). However, in our theoretical particle what we now have is a center of gold/no mercury, a surface of gold/mercury, and on top of that a layer of mercury/no gold. Right, we have our amalgamated gold and now we want to get rid of the mercury. We just need to heat it, right. Yeah, but look what happens. As we heat it the excess mercury coating boils off. Now the true amalgam at the surface gets hot and the mercury boils off leaving the gold, right? Dead wrong! What happens is as the mercury evaporates from this surface area the gold which was dissolved in it falls away from the parent particle and is left as a usually black powder which you normally throw away because it don?t look like gold. This same effect is true if you use nitric acid to remove the mercury.

Question: What is the brand of gold charm bracelet that Meredith Veira wears everyday?

I saw her say that her husband gave it to her but I want to try and buy one like it.

Answer: I think it might be Tiffany & Co. Most likely it will be.

I think it might be Tiffany & Co. Most likely it will be.

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