Diamond question
Dec. 10th, 2004 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Does anyone know what would darken diamonds? I've been wearing my grandmother's wedding ring for only a few weeks, and one tiny diamond (it's really just a chip) is significantly darker than the others. I keep nervously checking that it hasn't fallen out. It hasn't - but for some reason it's dull and grey while the others still flash. I've taken the ring off and checked that there isn't anything wedged in the cavity beneath it.
Does anyone know what might have happened? I took the ring off the only time I handled anything really corrosive, and the entire ring has been through the cycles of handwashing/hairwashing, etc. How do I shine it up again?
Does anyone know what might have happened? I took the ring off the only time I handled anything really corrosive, and the entire ring has been through the cycles of handwashing/hairwashing, etc. How do I shine it up again?
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Date: 2004-12-10 03:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-10 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-10 03:44 pm (UTC)2)It may not be a diamond, whereas the others are. A paste stone may have replaced a lost one, sometime in the past. If it was your grandmother's, they may not have had good fakes. And if you've immersed it in something that wouldn't darken the actual diamonds, it may have had an adverse effect on a glass stone.
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Date: 2004-12-10 09:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-11 06:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-10 09:32 pm (UTC)Oh, by the way? Good for you for taking the ring off around anything corrosive. I don't know how many women I've seen come in heartbroken that their rings had to be fixed--and then we told them that we could fix it, but because they were handling household chemicals while wearing gold that their rings were forevermore going to be much more fragile because of the chemicals' effect on the gold.
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Date: 2004-12-11 06:56 am (UTC)If I ruined my grandmother's engagement ring, I'd kill myself. Since the entire thing came from a jewelry store who repaired the fittings and shined and polished and checked everything (that was part of it being my present - not just the ring itself, but making it wear-worthy), I'm going to give it a gentle toothbrushing. I keep old brushes around for stuff like that.
The ring has to live with dishwasher detergent and soap and shampoo and isoporopal and windex - but I figured undiluted toilet bowl stuff with bleach was asking too much of any jewelry!
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Date: 2004-12-12 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-13 06:17 am (UTC)no subject
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