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News India Live, Digital Desk: Silver Foil Test: Be it festivals in India or any auspicious opportunity, without sweets, it is incomplete. And in the beauty of these sweets, four moons are added to them, silver foil/Vark. It does not just look good, but many people believe that it is also beneficial for health. But do you know that all the silver work found in the market is not real? Nowadays fake work is also being sold indiscriminately, which can be harmful for health. So the next time you go to buy sweets, how will you recognize whether the silver work on it is real or fake? Let’s know some easy and effective ways.
Loss to health due to fake silver work:
Fake work is often made from inexpensive metals such as aluminum, which contain heavy metals such as nickel, cadmium and lead. Eating them can also affect stomach diseases, digestive problems and liver and kidney in a long time. Therefore, the identity of real-fake is very important.
How to identify real silver work?
- Rub with finger:
- Rub the work on the dessert lightly with your finger.
- Real Work: If the work is of real silver, then it will be easily uprooted when rubbed and will not stick to the fingers at all, but will break into fine particles. It would seem to be completely disappearing.
- Fake Work: If the work is fake (aluminum), it will either shrink or stick to the finger when rubbed. It can also turn black and look like plastic.
- Mash between the fingers:
- Remove a little work from the dessert and mash it between your fingers.
- Real Work: Pure silver work is very soft and when it is mashed it becomes like powder or disappears completely.
- Fake Work: When you mash the fake work (aluminum), it will gather as a small tablet or a circle and will not be made of flour at all. It may also feel a little thick to touch.
- Burn and check: (Do this method carefully at home)
- Take a small piece of work from the dessert and grab it with a tweezer and bring it directly to the flame (eg of matches or lighter).
- Real Work: On burning pure silver work, a light silver is converted into a pill and becomes ashes in a few seconds or disappears completely without any mark. There will be no smoke or smell from it.
- Fake Work: When the work of aluminum is burnt, a rigid, brown or black pill will turn and there may be a strange smell like burning of aluminum. This ash will not be made.
- Try dissolve in water: (Although this method is less effective, but an identity may be)
- Put some work in a glass of water and leave it.
- Real Work: Pure silver work does not float in water and soon sits down. It does not dissolve in water.
- Fake Work: Fake (aluminum) work often floats on water or tries to dissolve and can also change its color.
These are some easy ways by which you can recognize the difference between real and fake silver work while buying sweets. Do not compromise with your health and enjoy festivals with pure and real sweets!
