Cleaning Jewelry

[marksk]

I've got some old jewelry I'd like to clean up, but I don't really trust the stores to do it for me.

Does anyone know a reliable place to buy Potassium Cyanide to clean jewelry?

[arjunadawn]

Ah, why not use toothpaste and brush? Or, toothpaste and baking soda? I have always found they work nearly as well.

[Ireland32]

They sell that liquid jewelry cleaner In Small bottles, I've seen in Patts at store outside Tesco on Suk.

[CharlieH]

Drop it in a glass of Cola, you'll be amazed !!

[sipi]

I wouldn't have potassium cyanide in the house. If someone mistakes it for sugar they are dead.

[Oxx]

Use gin. It's what the British royal family uses, and they've got a lot of jewellery to keep sparking.

[petermik]

I wouldn't have potassium cyanide in the house. If someone mistakes it for sugar they are dead.

Interesting

Thanks for the tip sipi

[saorsa]

Use gin. It's what the British royal family uses, and they've got a lot of jewellery to keep sparking.

Not Bombay Blue Sapphire though, that would be a shocking waste!

[Oxx]

Use gin. It's what the British royal family uses, and they've got a lot of jewellery to keep sparking.

Not Bombay Blue Sapphire though, that would be a shocking waste!

Indeed. They did try using it once, but the Queen Mother finished the bottles before they could be used for the jewellery.

[katana]

Be careful with Potassium cyanide, it's quite toxic, a lethal dose in humans being about 250mg, roughly a quarter of a tsp.

[sipi]

Be careful with Potassium cyanide, it's quite toxic, a lethal dose in humans being about 250mg, roughly a quarter of a tsp.

And death is prolonged and agonizing.

My Father witnessed one of his chemistry students commit suicide in front of the class by downing some potassium cyanide. Unlike the movies where the victims of cyanide poisoning slip quietly into a deep sleep, this student thrashed violently for ages before it finally took effect.

[Oxx]

Be careful with Potassium cyanide, it's quite toxic, a lethal dose in humans being about 250mg, roughly a quarter of a tsp.

And death is prolonged and agonizing.

A chemistry professor and Manchester University many years ago told an anecdote about a time he was a young researcher in a lab where there was an accident with a cyanide reaction. Of the three people in the lab, one died, one went mad, and the third became Professor of Chemistry at Manchester University.

[sipi]

Be careful with Potassium cyanide, it's quite toxic, a lethal dose in humans being about 250mg, roughly a quarter of a tsp.

And death is prolonged and agonizing.

A chemistry professor and Manchester University many years ago told an anecdote about a time he was a young researcher in a lab where there was an accident with a cyanide reaction. Of the three people in the lab, one died, one went mad, and the third became Professor of Chemistry at Manchester University.

Or the same person eventually did all three.

[willyumiii]

i spent years mining placer gold and having it made into jewelry before selling it.

i found that soaking the gold in a spray cleaner like fantastic or 409 for 24 hours removed all of the dirt and tarnish from it and made it beautiful.

[sandgroper2]

Ah, why not use toothpaste and brush? Or, toothpaste and baking soda? I have always found they work nearly as well.

Use toothpaste and brush, better still, use sand paper and a wire brush. You dont want shiny jewelry, it makes it easier for the thieves to see.

P.S. I know an idiot that used toothpaste and brush, hes know as Sandgroper2

Edited April 29, 2016 by sandgroper2

[sandgroper2]

Soak the silver in warm soapy water, leave overnight, or, over day if you like.

[Oxx]

Isn't potassium cyanide used in gold mining to dissolve gold from rocks? Can someone explain, please, why one would want to clean your gold jewellery with something that's going to dissolve it away and, presumably, make shiny gold matte?

[sipi]

Ultrasonic cleaners are dirt cheap and work ok. I would be avoiding chemicals at all cost.

OP, why don't you trust the stores to do it for you? They have been successfully cleaning jewelry for millennium.