The listing, ***SPARKLY*** 1.8 CZ WHITE GOLD RHODIUM ABSTRACT RING has ended.
Clear round stones cluster around a brilliant large CZ to create an abstract design. Band is stainless steel with white gold and rhodium plating. 3/8 x 3/8
Sizes available: 7 & 9
Comes with velvet pouch shown in pictures 3, 4 & 5
If GIN used will come in gift box
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT RHODIUM...
it is NOT a "fake" metal, like some think...
Rhodium is a very precious metal that can cost ten times as much as gold or more! Rhodium is generally not considered a feasible material to make jewelry from, because it is stressed and brittle, very difficult to "work" properly for jewelry making, and it's price is terribly volatile.
But rhodium is fabulous as a plating for jewelry because it is glitteringly, dazzlingly, white and mirror-like. It's like chrome, but much whiter, and the most reflective of all metals.
Rhodium plating makes diamonds look bigger and better because it's so bright that it glints like the diamonds. From a couple of feet away and under most lighting conditions it's hard to see where the stones end and the metal begins. Nothing sets off diamonds like rhodium plating does. So most white gold jewelry today is rhodium plated.
The Wikipedia entry on it will tell you this- "It is one of the rarest and most valuable precious metals. Rhodium is a so-called noble metal, resistant to corrosion, found in platinum- or nickel ores together with the other members of the platinum group metals. White gold is often plated with a thin rhodium layer to improve its appearance while sterling silver is often rhodium plated for tarnish resistance."