What is 'rhodium plating'?

What is 'rhodium plating'?

John Cordova (Vice President of Human Resources, Robbins Bros.) gives expert video advice on: What are the metals most frequently used to make jewelry?; What is platinum?; Why is platinum so popular as a jewelry metal today? and more...

Rhodium plating is the process used to plate finished jewelry pieces to get a harder, more brilliant white appearance. Rhodium plating is used in the plating of white gold pieces once it's finished, because it has yellowish stains that gold tends to have. It's also used, in cases, to finish platinum pieces to give it a shinier more polished look. Overtime the rhodium finish tends to wear, and that's natural. It happens to wear and tear. It's very, very easy, and it should be inexpensive to have your ring re-rhodium finished at a jewellery store by a professional.