Diamonds and Chlorine, Fact or Fiction

[TooMuchInformation]

I''ve gone post mad today.

Just doing some reading, and I''ve found a bunch of contradictory information with regards to Chlorine and Diamonds. I would never suspect that Chlorine could cause any damage to a diamond, and this is confirmed on several sites, but others say that Chlorine can permanantly damage and affect the color and/or brilliance of a diamond, even if a ring is worn into a swimming pool. This sounds a little far fetched, but I *had* to ask.

What''s the deal!?

 

[dimonbob]

Chlorine will not hurt your diamond but it will attack the solder in your ring. In many cases solder holds ring parts together. Chlorine will eat away the solder and the ring starts falling apart. I had a customer once that had three bands soldered together. A few weeks later she returned and the bands were coming apart where they were soldered. They were cleaned up and resoldered. A few weeks later she returned with the same problem. When I started questioning her I found out she swam laps every morning at the Holiday Spa. She stopped wearing jewelry in the pool and never had another problem.
Education is good. Mis-information is bad.