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Nowadays, gold jewelry is more popular than ever,
because of the vast selection we
have to choose from, of styles, colors, and types. The gold necklace, however, seems
to hold its own as an elegant, sought-after piece of jewelry. It is often thought by
jewelers today that pure gold is too soft to be made into jewelry, and so to
strengthen it, they combine it with other metals. When creating such alloys,
different colors arise, such as rose, from combining pure gold with copper, or
white by combining silver and pure gold.
The purity of the gold is told by the karatage: generally speaking, the higher the amount of
pure gold, the higher the karatage. in the U.S. there is a law requiring jewelry to be the
minimum amount of 10k, but there are also techniques such as gold-plating and gold-filling to
make a piece of jewelry look like it is gold. Always be sure and check the trade and hallmarks.
24k gold is marked by 24k or 999
18k gold is marked with 18k or 750
14k gold is marked with 14k or 585
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