How to clean jewelry in the Ocean found

Wreck divers often find jewellery and other precious objects.

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Few things in life are as exciting to find a diver as a treasure in the ocean. Whether it came from a shipwreck or you found that there are lying on the ocean floor, are just a topic of conversation for many years your piece of jewelry. If heavily tarnished jewelry or corroded from years beneath the waves lie, you must take steps to purify it. How to clean the jewelry, depends on its composition.

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Pour 5 cups of water in a bowl, porcelain or glass.

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Add 1/2 cup of nitric acid in the Bowl provided. Take care not to touch the solution or get it your skin or eyes, since the acid can irritate the skin.

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Place the gold jewelry in the solution. Let it soak for 12 hours in water.

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From the solution with a pair of pliers to remove the jewelry. Rinse it thoroughly under cold water no traces of the acid solution or dirt to remove.

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Dry, you avoid the gold jewelry with a cloth.

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Rub the silver jewelry gently with a stiff sponge for household laundry you remove the excess black coating or silver sulfide intended. Be gentle, as the jewelry may be fragile.

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Place the silver in a commercial electrolysis cleaner. Add the amount of water and salt by statements and close the cleaner of manufacturer's specified. Most of the silver sulfide come from the jewelry immediately after you it plug in.

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Consider electrolysis cleaner and remove silver jewelry too, if the jewelry is mostly free from tarnish. This could take as five minutes or as long as little as an hour, depending on the extent of the murky. No traces of salt remove, rinse the jewelry under cold water.

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Press a DAB toothpaste on an old toothbrush and brush remove the silver jewelry for two minutes, loose dirt or silver sulfide. Thoroughly rinse the jewelry.

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The jewelry with a soft cloth to dry and polishing with a silver polishing cloth.

Tips & warnings

If you suspect that the jewelry of iron, copper or other metal, or if the piece of jewellery will be not clean, bring it to a jeweler, specializing in restorations, or a University Department of archaeology. You may not be able, to clean without damaging the piece.

When you enable the electrolysis cleaner, touch not the water or the jewelry. An electric current running through the water and you can, shocked.

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