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If you marry, choose one of the most important decisions about your ring. Traditionally, gold, white gold, silver and platinum have been used in wedding rings. But today the selection of metals is broader, reflecting the change in our taste and lifestyle. Carbide is one of the metals, which started a new jewelry designer wedding band rings have crafts, offers a wide variety of styles and designs that fit every taste and every budget.

What is Carbide?

On its own, tungsten is a very hard and dense metal, with the highest melting point of all metals – 6100 degrees Fahrenheit. Alone, tungsten is vulnerable to scratches and damage just like any other metal, it gains its extreme hardness, by having a carbon alloy, transforming and combining them into hard metal, with a hardness between 8 5 and 9 5 on the Mohs hardness scale. The strength of tungsten carbide has well over decades in industrial applications for use – it is four times harder than titanium, twice as hard as steel and almost impossible to scratch. The resulting metal can in wedding band rings that are both visually stunning to the eye and durable enough to be designed to please the daily use. These rings can only by extreme measures, like abrasion from diamonds have been damaged or beaten with a hammer.

Your selection Carbide Wedding Band Ring

Make sure you ask your jeweler which metal in the finishing or binding process was used. Many manufacturers of tungsten carbide wedding band rings use cobalt as a binder, mostly because it is cheaper to produce. The problem with cobalt is that it does with oil in the skin and leeches out of the ring bond oxidation. The oxidation appears similar to tarnished Sliver, but can not be removed by polishing or grinding. The better choice is nickel-binder tungsten carbide which is chemically inert, will not oxidize and because it is hypoallergenic, there is no risk of irritation to the skin. Be careful about dealing with a jeweler that does not indicate that their wedding rings with tungsten-nickel alloy binder are produced. Many jewelry stores do not know which alloy they are selling, and if they do not know, it is most likely, cobalt alloy or pure tungsten, which lacks the hardness of tungsten carbide and are easily scratched.

Because of the extreme hardness of tungsten carbide, Engagement rings from this metal can not be calibrated, as gold or silver or platinum rings. When you are ready to buy, make sure that you are very careful in determining the correct size. In terms of engraving a tungsten carbide ring, it is possible, but the results are very faint and difficult to read.

Finally, since your tungsten carbide wedding ring is not indestructible ring, it makes sense to have a guarantee, especially against breakage. Normally it should be little or none of both the Polish and the textures of your tungsten carbide wedding band ring and you’ll never need to use your warranty tracks.