Silver pearl jewelry combines the best of both worlds. The pearl’s luster and white, creamy sheen, plus the brightness of silver, combines to form one of the most dazzling kinds of jewelry.
Types of Pearls. Cultured pearls come in different sizes and shapes, depending on the design of the culture. Sometimes they are made to shape like buttons, teardrops, pears, and oval. Yet, the round pearl remains the most popular and the most expensive.
Cultured pearls have a different structure than natural pearls as they have no concentric growth rings. Natural pearls exhibit these growth rings as the mollusk has been developing the pearl for more than the duration of cultured pearls. In addition, the cores of the two kinds of pearl differ substantially. When put under an X-ray imaging system, the natural pearl exhibits an irregular solid center, since the original irritant found in nature is most likely an irregularly-shaped organism. Cultured pearls are more intentional, and as such, they have perfectly spherical cores caused by manufactured beads.
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