Brass jewelry, an ancient and traditional jewelry

Send Date: 2010-11-04 20:06:50

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Brass jewelry, an ancient and traditional jewelry

By Vicke chen from Staryee jewelry

Brass is one of the first metals to discover by human beings. Before thousands years, human began to use brass. This also made brass jewelry as one of the earliest jewelry that people worn in history.

Brass jewelry, with bright color appearance, it had been a lot of people praise from ancient times to the present. Brass jewelry includes necklace, rings, bracelet, etc; all of them are with fine workmanship and elegant appearance.

Because the use of brass is early and cheaper than other precious metals such as gold or silver, so the cheap brass jewelry is also one of the most widely jewelry loved by the common citizens in the early ancient time. Today, brass jewelry is also very popular in some places; it passed on from generation to generation and become a classical and traditional jewelry. Even in some ethnic groups, the tradition of wearing brass jewelry is as one of their national tradition.

Most of the brass jewelry that people of the modern society wear is actually alloy jewelry. This kind of brass is an alloy that made of copper and zinc. The brass which is made of copper and zinc is called common brass. If the brass is a several alloy that consisting of two or more elements, for example the copper alloy which made of lead, tin, manganese, nickel, iron, silicon, is called special brass.  Brass has good wear poof ability.

Compare with other metal, cheap is the greatest strength of brass, and has good pliability and ductility, and is easy to work. Brass jewelry also has drawback, like it is easy oxidation and changing color and many people will allergic to brass.

Because of its good ductibility, and be easy to work, brass is often used to make cheap jewelry, even some new concept fashion jewelry also use the low cost brass. After treated by polishing which is to anti-oxidation, brass jewelry can get beautiful color.

After treated by polishing, the appearance of brass jewelry is similar to gold jewelry, some lawless person often palm off the brass jewelry as gold jewelry, in fact, it’s not difficult to identify brass jewelry and gold jewelry. Because the proportion of brass is less than gold, in the same size conditions, gold jewelry is heavier than brass jewelry, and its color is more yellow, brass jewelry’s color appears redder.

There is one main drawback to brass jewelry; it’s easy to oxidation and change color. To prevent oxidation, it’s best to avoid contact with the water, and galvanize or daub a layer of isolation.

If the brass jewelry becomes oxidized, the best way to clean it is to send it to a professional jewelry store. The simplest way is to wipe it with cloth which dips a little toothpaste, it better to use a polishing compound substitute for toothpaste. Finally, coat with a nail polish on the treated brass jewelry, make it isolated from air to prevent oxidized and change color again.  

Ordinary consumers criticize brass jewelry for it makes people's skin allergic, and an excess of copper entered the human’s body can cause harm to human’s body.

But there’s another opinion in medical community, some medical specialists regard that wearing brass jewelry can prevent arthritis and help improve the skin. Even have medical journals expound the science which of wearing brass jewelry can prevent arthritis by professional papers.

Brass jewelry is harmful or healthful to human’s body, however, it till needs more authoritative scientific evidence to judge, but one thing we can assure that, in the development of human civilization brass jewelry used to be one of the most popular jewelry in the past thousands of years. 

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