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Old 2018-01-04, 10:22am
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Default Will LOS not darken raw brass wire?

Not a glass question, but maybe some jewelry peeps have some insight...

Before the holidays I made a number of wire hair sticks/hair combs using raw copper wire and raw brass wire (10g). I use the liver of sulfur gel in very hot water. Cleaned my wires well and put them in the LOS solution. The copper turned black immediately. Brass did nothing. Left the brass in the solution for 30 minutes… could barely tell any darkening at all. I then remembered I had some Brass Black, and that did the trick.

So I am wondering if I did something wrong, or does brass not antique with LOS? Or am I too impatient and need to let it soak a long long time? Copper just goes black so fast, i expected the brass to as well.
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