I took a shower at a friends house and my jewelry looked almost orange afterwards.
2007-06-12 05:58:07 · 9 answers · asked by pammycakes06 1 in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
A lot of well water contains sulfur (especially in the West), and sulfur tarnishes silver.
2007-06-12 07:01:01 · answer #1 · answered by original 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The city chemicals and copper pipes. The chemicals erode a bit of the copper pipes causing fragments of copper to sit in the water, then the copper sticks to silver-colored metals.
2007-06-12 07:18:50 · answer #2 · answered by thezaylady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The acid base reaction that takes subject has a byproduct of copper chloride and water (CuO + 2 HCl --> CuCl2 + H2O), the copper chloride supplies a green colour to the respond this is left on the back of.
2016-12-12 19:05:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Copper sulphate salts are more in the water and that is why the jewelry turns copperish in it ( due to deposits of copper)
2007-06-12 06:09:20 · answer #4 · answered by SATISH KUMAR N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest that you have alot of rust in your water system or that it is just plain hard water with alot of minerals in it that you don't know about.
2007-06-12 06:54:24 · answer #5 · answered by mysticways2u2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
solfur have you ever been hot tubbing it turns color there too it will go back 2 orignal color soon rub it with toohpaste
2007-06-15 06:47:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hardness in the water, just polish it with vo5
2007-06-12 12:51:47 · answer #7 · answered by Ty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sulphur and iron most likely.
2007-06-12 06:03:52 · answer #8 · answered by annetta51 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not the water...
2007-06-12 06:02:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋