When it comes to buying jewelry, it is true that you get what you pay for. Don’t sell yourself short, it is highly important to know the basic terms of jewelry in order to fully understand what you are buying. For example, Karat is a term which is used to describe the purity for gold alloys, instead of weight.
It is not to be confused with the term Carat, which is a unit of mass used for weighing the pearls and gemstones. Karat and carat are often used interchangeably within certain countries, so it’s important to know which is which. The word Karat derives from ancient Asian bazaars in which carob seeds where used to balance scales to measure the weight of gold.
Since gold is a relatively soft metal, mixing it with other alloys creates stronger jewelry whereas pure gold, 24 Karats (kt), is highly susceptible to damage. Since the purity of a ring does not affect its weight, it is easiest to test Karats with acid or electronic testing kit- though acid will inevitably damage the gold.
So how much gold is in your ring? Well, one Karat gold unit is 1/24 part. In the U.S., the minimum Karat is 10 (9kt in the U.K.). A 10kt ring is gold mixed with approximately 60 percent of other metals. Certain gold mixtures have different colors. Colored gold can range from white and yellow to red and even green.
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