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What does tarnished jewelry say about your home?
I recently moved to a new place and some jewelry of mine is beginning to look very tarnished and I remember hearing that if your jewelry is tarnishing at a very fast rate there could be a potential problem with your home. Please help! Thanks.
3 Answers
- ?Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
If your jewelry is silver, the tarnish on it is the chemical black silver sulphide. This means that there is some sulphur compounds in the air around you. This is normal, in that silver always does get this black deposit which will clean off with silver polish. However, the more sulphur compounds in the air, the quicker the tarnishing. So I ask if you are in an industrial area, or near a factory which could be releasing sulphurous compounds ( such as sulphur dioxide, hydrogen sulphide) via smoke?
- picadorLv 71 decade ago
If you are talking about jewelry, you are talking about silver. It tarnishes because of sulphur dioxide. That's as much as I know about it.
- RoseLv 71 decade ago
Well, it won't be a structural or social problem.
Clean it up and see what happens. It may be atmospheric or it may have something to do with a change in your skin.
Rest assured it will have no mystical meaning.
