How Gold Plating Works: The Complete Technical Process Explained
Understand how gold plating works: the electroplating process, technical stages, equipment and chemistry involved. A complete technical guide by FC Joias.
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How to Do Professional Gold Plating on Semi-Jewelry: Complete Technical Guide
Find out how professional gold plating is done on semi-jewelry. The industrial process, required equipment, chemicals used and why it is not safe to do at home. A complete FC Joias guide.
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Plating for gold-plated jewelry
Most of the beautiful jewelry sold to consumers goes through a plating process. This plating relies on a physical and chemical process called electrodeposition. The jewelry pieces are immersed in liquid solutions, causing a reaction between the metals that forms small, thin layers.
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Many people still have doubts about how long pieces that go through gold plating will last. The method, however, is highly complex and guarantees product quality. Several chemical procedures go into creating semi-jewelry pieces that stand out just like the originals.
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Do You Know What Electroplating Is?
Known in the trade as jewelry plating, electroplating is an electrochemical process in which one metal is coated with another through electrodeposition. It is not quite that simple, though, and there are plenty of technical terms involved. This article explains each of them.
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Chemist's Day
Brazil celebrates Chemist's Day on June 18, the date on which former president Juscelino Kubitschek signed Law No. 2,800/1956, also known as the "Mother Law of Chemists," which created the Federal and Regional Chemistry Councils and regulated the profession.
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Want to Learn Chemistry in a More Hands-On Way?
Anyone who loves chemistry knows how important the periodic table is. It systematically organizes the atomic species, with 118 elements, and was created by Dmitri Mendeleev and updated by Julius Lothar Meyer. It provides the atomic number and mass number of each element, making it possible to see relationships among the elements' periodic properties, such as atomic radius and electronegativity.
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