Jewelry Tips: Titanium rings or tungsten wedding bands won’t tarnish. Tungsten jewelry is a darker gray than titanium jewelry, but, again, the shade you buy is the shade you’ll see forever. They are particularly suited to active individuals; in fact, you probably don’t want to engage in an activity that might damage titanium bands or tungsten carbide rings–imagine what it could do to your hand!

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Jewelry Tips: Titanium, tungsten or stainless steel jewelry is best cleaned with a simple soak in warm, soapy water or detergent and wipe down with a soft cloth. Do not use any harsh abrasives on stainless; they can damage its natural protective oxide coat.

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Jewelry Tips: Unlike precious metals, titanium uses a complex industrial grading system; three of these grades are used in jewelry: “Commercially pure” titanium, called CP or ASTM Grade 2 (in jewelry terms, 990 fine) is the most hypo-allergenic and could be called medical grade. Ti-6/4, also called ASTM Grade 5 or aircraft grade (900 titanium 60 aluminum 40 vanadium), and Ti-6/6/2 (860 titanium 60 aluminum 60 vanadium 20 tin) are the extremely hard alloys. These designations are not always included in descriptions.

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Jewelry Tips: When buying diamonds, always buy from reputable retailers that you trust and who can attest to the origins of the gold, diamonds and gemstones they sell.

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Jewelry Tips: Yellow gold is gold in its natural state, its shades varying with impurities or when alloyed (mixed with other metals), but even white gold is yellow-tinged. White gold can be of several alloys: Nickel is the least expensive, but some people are allergic to nickel. Platinum, iridium and palladium make more expensive, hypo-allergenic alloys. The whitest gold is actually rhodium-plated gold; this plating won’t chip, but does wear off and must be renewed periodically to maintain its best appearance. Other alloys include copper, which makes rose gold and pink gold; silver, which makes green gold; and iron, which makes blue gold.

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Jewelry Tips: A very common element, titanium remained unknown until the late 19th century and had no industrial value until the mid-20th, when economical processing methods were developed (a happy coincidence, as the then-expanding aerospace industry found titanium indispensable). Discovered in the late 18th Century, tungsten or wolfram, was first distilled from the mineral wolframite. Its high melting point is prized for things like light bulb filaments; added to other metals, it forms super dense alloys used in products ranging from golf club heads to weapons. Both are strong as steel–titanium at about half the weight, tungsten at about twice the weight–and able to alloy with numerous other metals, making them indispensable to modern industry.

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