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Silver and his properties

Silver is a noble metal “friend” in the history of man, protagonist for more than 5000 years of our lives, with its lucenye appearance and its lunar colour is undisputed protagonist of the most elegant tables and houses in the world.

It is malleable, ductile, it is found both in nature both in mineral form, is antiseptic, antibacterial, excellent conductor used  both  in medical and electrical fields.

Greggio Group from 1948 produces and commercializes items in sterling silver 925, silver plated, nickel silver. As gold, silver is too soft to be used pure so it matches an alloy with 75 maximum parts of copper and 925 minimum parts of silver that guarantees the title of 925. The title is the minimum percentage of pure silver in the metallic alloy that composes an item. Each article in sterling silver is punched with trademark (29PD) and the title (925) to ensure origin, authenticity and the percentage of pure material.

Silver plated is a copper alloy on wich are deposited 5 or 8 microns of silver .

Nichel Silver is a white copper, zinc and nickel alloy more resistant than brass. It is mainly used for silver metal cutlery where are deposited 35 microns of silver.

The items in silver plated and nickel silver are punched only with the name of productor.

Micron is the thousandth part of a gram.

According to beliefs, silver affects emotions making the wearer more calm and helping him to understand the tasks of life. Develops fantasy, frees intuition and immagination. Strengthens memory and concentration, stimulates curiosity and gives power and vigor both phisic tham psychic.