贵金属宝石学

贵金属测试

涉及购买,销售或加工精制黄金,银色或白金的企业找到Bruker快速准确的测试工具有助于运营有效且有利可图的操作。Bruker的贵金属测试人员可以确保每笔交易中的每一分钱都可以使用。

贵金属测试

对黄金,铂和银制成的有价值的物体和珠宝的无损分析

X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) provides a non-destructive means for the testing of jewelry, cultural heritage and other valuable objects made from gold, platinum or silver. Portable XRF (pXRF), sometimes called a XRF “gun” or handheld XRF, provides compositional and purity analysis from any location. Desktop micro-XRF can provide layer analysis in detail. Explore below Bruker’s options for XRF analysis of precious metals by specialists, recyclers, refiners and bulk jewelry professionals.

金卡拉测定法

Rapid Precious Metal Analysis by Portable XRF

TheS1泰坦CTX是便携式珠宝测试人员,为黄金珠宝提供准确且可重复的Karat标志。卡拉特是对黄金纯度的度量,其中24 karats是纯金。用英语拼写克拉,这种黄金的分数非常重要,并已被作为美国法律的官方措施。例如,18克拉金是18份黄金和6份另一个金属(18+6 = 24)。布鲁克的元素分析仪将黄金的元素百分比转换为卡拉测量。

Bruker gold jewelry testers provide gold concentration data and full alloy chemistry in as little as 2-5 seconds per sample, and testing is realized without any damage or alteration to the sample. Completely nondestructive analysis paired with accuracy within a few tenths of a percent of fire assay make testing gold jewelry easy for many businesses in the gold and industries. Some advantages of portable XRF for gold analysis are:

  • with Rapid measurement times ranging from 2 to 15 seconds

  • On-screen results with output available in percent (%), karat (Kt) or PPM

  • 同时多元分析的完整合金组成

  • 轻巧且易于使用的乐器不需要高技能的操作员

  • Fully downloadable results for record-keeping, report-generating, and trend analysis

Jewelry Layers and Coating

珠宝涂料层分析和麦克风ro-XRF

Coatings are most commonly used for jewelry to improve aesthetics by coating a copper or silver jewelry with a layer of pure gold.M1 Mistral, micro-spot XRF is a fast and completely non-destructive method for quality control of decorative precious metal jewelry coatings.M1 Mistralcan accurately analyze gold, rhodium or palladium coating to ensure the correct thickness and coating composition. In addition to coating thickness analysis,M1 Mistral还可以快速测试珠宝和其他珍贵金属物品的成分和金卡拉值。

金涂层用于通过化学或电化学镀层,将薄薄的纯金薄层沉积到另一种金属的表面上,该金属通常是铜或银。它通常用于低成本珠宝,因为它便宜且易于使用。薄金镀层缺乏耐用性,如果珠宝仅受到正常磨损的影响,可能会变色。大多数镀金的珠宝只有一个微米厚,可以轻松地分析M1 Mistral.

物理蒸气沉积(PVD)用于在真空室中蒸发黄金,并将其存放在珠宝上。当PVD与硝酸钛一起使用时,它是一种非常坚硬的材料,它提供了极耐用的黄金涂层,该涂层通常被使用高价珠宝,尤其是手表。

Rhodium is another commonly used jewelry coating, it is silvery-white and very hard precious metal that is used to guard the surface against scratches. It also gives a nice reflective white appearance. It is most commonly used on white gold jewelry but it is used also for silver and other materials.

Silver Analysis

Silver Analysis Made Easy with Portable XRF

TheS1泰坦CTXprovide portable and robust platforms for the analysis of silver. Pure silver (Ag), known as Fine Silver or 999.5 fineness, is much too soft to use in jewelry. However, it can be used in many other applications such as electrical components, bearings for jet engines, the formation of chemicals like formaldehyde and ethylene oxide and much more. Typically, for jewelry, silver is alloyed with another metal such as copper (Cu) to provide strength. Sterling Silver (Ag), the world standard for silver jewelry, contains 92.5% silver and usually 7.5% copper. Example applications for portable XRF include:

  • 银珠宝制造商可以验证他们购买的白银制作珠宝的纯度,并在合金纯银合金中监视自己的过程。

  • Jewelry dealers can determine silver purity on the spot before they purchase coins, jewelry or “pure” silver

  • Recyclers can identify silver content in electrical components, batteries and catalysts

  • 博物馆可以根据纸张的银含量(以及其他元素)身份验证和出处照片

  • 人工制品中的银含量可以帮助确定出处

Platinum Group Elements

用XRF的铂金组元素估值

When buying, selling or recycling Platinum Group Metals (PGMs)—Platinum (Pt), Palladium (Pd) and Rhodium, it is important to be able to determine purity fast, effectively and reliably. The BrukerS1泰坦或者CTXcan provide the confidence and speed needed to make the most of the market today. In mere seconds, the purity and value of platinum and other precious metals can be determined:

  • Laboratory quality results from a compact, battery powered instrument

  • 没有危险废物,化学物质或消耗品

  • Accurate measurement of metal content where it matters, for example between 93% and 95% platinum

  • 与实验室结果的良好相关性,没有将样品发送到外部实验室的高成本

  • Other important elements analyzed in addition to PGMs- Cerium (Ce), Lanthanum (La), Iron (Fe), Nickel (Ni), and Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn), Zirconium (Zr), Barium (Ba), Osmium (Os), and Lead (Pb)