Ring for Managing Diabetes

Gem & jewellery can be effectively used to mitigate diabetic condition and to supplement medicine and medical care. Although there are several types of wear, generally the use of ring is recommended. Depending on the nature and level of diabetes rings can be of plainer variety or be studded with appropriate gems.

The main metal for diabetes ring could be either gold or silver. Appropriate alloy is added to this main metal. Some of these alloys include, elements such as chromium, cobalt, copper, tungsten, zinc and other trace elements.

A wide variety of cosmic gems are available. Well known amongst these are, agate, citrine, coral, pearl, zircon and many others.

As you are aware, gems & metals have vibration, sensation, resonance and a feeling of well-being that contribute immensely in reducing ill effects of diabetic and other health conditions. These generate positive cosmics in managing diabetes.

After studying your case, you can find out the following;

1. What is the metal and its associated alloy

2. If gemstone is necessary the type of stone its size, colour, weight, cut and shape

3. Guidelines on purchase or fabrication of the ring and how you should wear it for best result.

In order to study your case you have to provide the nature , extent and history of the diabetic condition along with personal details.

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Muthu Ashraff

Cosmic Adviser

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Reducing Copper in Sterling Silver Jewellery

Pure silver is too soft a metal to make jewellery articles out of it therefore it is often alloyed with copper as conventional hardening agent. Moreover, silver cannot carry much weight and the load managing is also left to copper. Sterling Silver, which has become much popular as a jewellery metal consists of the binary alloy of silver and copper. Quite a number of negatives have surfaced on its wake. Here is a review of the issues surrounding Sterling Silver.

Beauty of Sterling Silver jewellery lies not only on the main metal, but the kind of alloy that are mixed to silver. As you are aware an article of 92.5% silver is composed with an alloy of 7.5% of other metals chiefly copper and trace element of Zinc. By adding copper the original beauty, elegance, brightness, reflective capacity of pure silver are protected. Furthermore silver–copper alloy continues to sustain solderability, malleability, ductility of silver. Cosmics of silver as conductor of heat and electricity is not impaired by alloying it with copper.

Disadvantages come along bringing major headaches to jewellers. Casting porosity arises when the copper alloy is heated resulting in empty spaces. Firescale is another ill when silver-copper ally oxidizes to form black or red coloured blemishes. Copper is notorious for tarnishing effects as it reacts to many elements. In the contrary silver does not tarnish in air or water, but reacts slightly to human sweat. Combining these metals, of course leads to a degree of tarnish and discoloration. To offset these minuses the industry has come out with few alternatives. One is to introduce non-tarnish Sterling Silver using metals such as Metalloid germanium, Zinc, Platinum, Tin and additives such as Indium, Silicon and Boron. Magnesium and Cadmium are also used judiciously as trace elements.

One such alloy of improved Sterling Silver is the US Patent 4973446 A, assigned to United Precious Metal Refining Company. The composition of the alloy and the functionality of metals used are described briefly. The breakdown is given in percentages for easy reading

Silver: Main metal at 92.5

Copper: 0.5 for hardening and load carrying of the alloy

Zinc: 4.25 to reduce melting point of alloy, to add whiteness, to act as copper substitute, and to de-oxidise & improve fluidity of alloy

Indium: 0.02 to act as grain refiner and to improve wettability of alloy

Tin: 0.48 to provide tarnish resistance as well as hardening

Boron - copper alloy: 1.25 where composition of Boron is 2 % and Copper is @ 98%. Boron is added in order to reduce surface tension of alloy and to allow blending homogenously

Silicon - copper alloy: 1.00 where composition of Silicon is 10% and Copper is @ 90%. Silicon is added for multi-functionality in de-oxidizing, reducing porosity and slight hardening.

Using this alloy, Sterling silver gem & jewellery pieces can be fabricated where the overall content of copper is reduced from a whopping 7.5 % to manageable 2.625% just about one third of the original proportion. If it baffles you how this percentage of 2.625% has been arrived at just do a little bit of arithmetic.

Copper in pure form 0.5 %

Add part of copper from the Boron-copper alloy which is worked out as 1.225%

Add part of copper from Silicon-copper alloy which is worked out as 0.90%

When you add all these three items you get 2.625%

Muthu Ashraff

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Why Black Gold Jewellery?

Tantalising black gold jewellery displayed by fashion houses such as Jarretiere and Boucheron is indeed a pleasure to view. Never mind the fashions; still the black gold jewellery pieces give you more than their value in terms of aesthetics and cosmics. Let me give you a primer on how black gold is made as jewellery, minuses and pluses of adorning them.

How it is blackened?

Black gold is made in two distinct ways. One method uses inter-metallic compound of gold and cobalt along with certain other elements in trace quantity. Gold cobalt master alloy available in the market can be suitably enriched by the judicious use of Chromium, Copper, Iron, Titanium, Silver and one of the Platinum Group of Metals such as platinum for this purpose.

Second and most popular method is to use “Patination” which means applying a surface coating of black colour on the gold. There are several ways in which such surface coating is done.

1. Electro-deposition or Electroplating using black coloured Rhodium or Ruthenium. In this process gold is electrically attracted to the part consisting of Rhodium or Ruthenium and forms an electrochemical bond with the base metal with excellent adhesion. In the case of Rhodium black tint is brighter whereas Ruthenium bestows darker shade

2. An advanced technique of external coating is to opt for Amorphous Carbon with a patented process known as “Plasma Assisted Chemical Vapour Deposition”

3. Controlled Oxidation is another process making Carat Gold alloy containing gold Chromium and/or Cobalt to turn into black tone

4. Heat treatment uses Cobalt oxide to form a Cobalt layer on gold which is heat treated at 700 - 950 degree Celsius.

Drawbacks

Unlike yellow gold jewellery, black gold is not sturdy or strong in hardness. This is because Cobalt though much harder than gold is still considered a brittle metal and in terms of heaviness is just less than half of gold. Since gold is also somewhat brittle combining both these elements do not add up to hard and durable alloy. More blacker the gold less wear resistant it would be. In addition to wear and tear, black coating could abrade or fade over time. Fabricating black gold jewellery is faced with restrictions in the form of patented technology. Even if a jeweller succeeds in making one there is no guarantee it can be repaired or brought to its former glory if and when the colour is faded, scraped or peeled off.

Benefits

Pluses of black gold jewellery compensates amply for the risks noted above. Black gold primarily functions as a tool of contrast in the hands of a craftsman. He can use it to house sparkling diamond or other light coloured stones ranging between white and rose hues. Moreover, black gold gives a standalone look when mixed with white metals such as Platinum, Palladium, Tantalum and others. Wearing black gold gem & jewellery makes you a grounding person, able to put your foot down in making choices and decisions. Besides you are encouraged to stand firm and resolute in activities.

As you adorn black gold gem & jewellery, you feel energy beginning to flow from the feet and travel upwards in your body. That means bonus inner strength, focus, seriousness in outlook and high degree of concentration in what you do. Furthermore, you can easily counter the effects of bad vibes in the ambience. Granting you a sense of security and satisfaction black gold prods you to think and act as a noble person. Other goodies include authority, power and prestige, composure, rest and a feeling of zing within you, not to forget about that sexy style for which you are now a brand ambassador.

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Muthu Ashraff

Cosmic Adviser

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Skype : cosmicgems

E-mail : cosmicgems@gmail.com

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