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The metal that is gaining the most popularity among jewelry consumers is platinum. It is the most expensive and rarest metal used in jewelry making. It is very beautiful as well as white metal is. It is of better quality than white gold.

Antonio de Ulloa discovered platinum in South Africa in 1735. He named it “platina” which means “silver of little value”. Little did he know that platinum was even scarcer than gold or silver.

Platinum resists tarnish and its natural white luster provides a prosperous backdrop for diamonds and other gems. Its look with diamonds or other gems is too wonderful.

Platinum is a hypo-allergenic metal that will not irritate the skin. Most platinum jewelry is 95 percent pure platinum, and 5 percent iridium or palladium alloy. Platinum rings are made of 95% platinum and 5% alloys in the United States. These extents are some different in Europe. Manufacturers give preference to work on this metal because it can be heated and cooled frequent times without loosing its shape. With this specification, they can design the platinum jewelry with more creativity.

The main reason to accept platinum by consumers is that platinum does not tarnish like white gold and some other white metals because many people experienced this problem.

The most common piece of platinum jewelry is the platinum ring. Platinum’s heavy weight and strength make it the perfect metal for engagement and wedding rings, because it’s shining doesn’t erode by regular usage.

Platinum’s marking is as follow...

Platinum jewelry, which contains at least 950 parts per thousand of pure platinum may be marked as "Platinum". Platinum Jewelry which contains 850, 900 or 950 parts per thousand of pure platinum may be marked "Plat" or "Pt" if a number is used in front of the term to disclose the amount of pure platinum in the mix, such as "850 Plat" or "850 Pt", or "950 Plat" or "950 Pt"

Following the above tips, you can identify your platinum jewelry.