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Originally Posted by Baddad
Hi Carl and Others,
Opal contains water and it is affected by water. That is why women wearing on opal ring need to take it off before washing dishes.
It can affect the opal quality.
Cheers
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As far I know there is no need to remove your opal ring when washing dishes.
Provided that your stone is solid opal and you are careful not to scratch it. Lot of opal jewellery is made from doublets and mostly from triplets. Opal triplet consist of darkish potch back, with very thin slice of good opal glued to it and quarts top lens glued on top.
It got many advantages. It looks good and comparing to solid stone - it is scratch resistant. Opal is fairly soft stone about 6 (I stand corrected if someone comes up with correct hardness) against the diamond at 10 and sapphire or ruby at 9. So it scratch easily. Triplet does not surfer from scratching but when immersed in water it can de laminate.