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  2. Palladium - Wikipedia

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    Unlike platinum, palladium may discolor at temperatures above 400 °C (752 °F) [65] due to oxidation, making it more brittle and thus less suitable for use in jewelry; to prevent this, palladium intended for jewelry is heated under controlled conditions. [66] Prior to 2004, the principal use of palladium in jewelry was the manufacture of white ...

  3. Colored gold - Wikipedia

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    Nickel alloys are hard and strong, and therefore good for rings and pins. Gold-palladium alloys are soft, pliable, and good for white-gold gemstone settings. The strength of gold-nickel-copper alloys is caused by formation of two phases: a gold-rich Au-Cu, and a nickel-rich Ni-Cu, and the resulting hardening of the material. [3]

  4. Precious metal - Wikipedia

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    Although both have industrial uses, they are better known for their uses in art, jewelry, and coinage. Other precious metals include the platinum group metals: ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum, of which platinum is the most widely traded. [1]

  5. Platinum group - Wikipedia

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    Naturally occurring platinum and platinum-rich alloys were known by pre-Columbian Americans for many years. [5] However, even though the metal was used by pre-Columbian peoples, the first European reference to platinum appears in 1557 in the writings of the Italian humanist Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558) as a description of a mysterious metal found in Central American mines between ...

  6. Ring (jewellery) - Wikipedia

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    Ruby ring. A ring is a round band, usually made of metal, worn as ornamental jewelry.The term "ring" by itself denotes jewellery worn on the finger; when worn as an ornament elsewhere, the body part is specified within the term, e.g., earrings, neck rings, arm rings, and toe rings.

  7. Coinage metals - Wikipedia

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    Ruthenium: 1967 1 ⁄ 2 Hau from Tonga was 98% palladium and 2% ruthenium. Selenium: 1862 medal in UK Science Museum, commemorating Berzelius, discoverer of the element. Silicon: Privately struck US quarter patterns dated 1964 (Pollock-5380) in nickel-silicon alloy. Tantalum: Used in a bimetallic silver-tantalum coin from Kazakhstan.