There are many people who buy jewelry in
regular basis and in order to buy they prefer the seller from whom they are
buying since a long time. At the time of buying jewelry, we usually check the
shine, finish and design of the gold or other jewelry. There are many people
who want to know how pure the material of the jewelry is. Here is a guide that
will let you know how you can check the purity of gold at time of purchasing
the jewelry.
When it comes to gold we say that gold is
the most common
material to make jewelry but it is quite expensive. The design
and finish of jewelries adds more prices tags to it. The term karat is used in
order to identify the purity of gold. 24 Karats is considered as the purest gold.
When we see pure gold its appearance is shiny but it is soft and malleable with
yellow color. Because of its softness and malleable nature, it is mixed with
other metals in order to make it hard so that the jewelry made of that gold
last for longer period of time. If any item is made from 24 Karat gold then it
will bend very easily and after some bends it will break and this is the reason
why
buying pure gold jewelry is a bad idea. The gold which is normally used by
the gold smith is the gold alloy which is a mixture of pure gold and with other
metals and the other metals that are mixed is not gold.
There are some methods which one can follow
in order to check gold’s purity. Gold is usually marked with stamps which shows
the karat of it, but if no mark is there you can check its purity.
There are many jewelry stores that will
allow you to check gold purity. They usually use nitric acid in order to check
the karat. Recognition of caret is done as per the chemical reaction observed.
You can also opt for scratch test, you just
have to scratch the piece of gold on the test stone and see whether it leaves
the mark or not. The darker the mark is the higher the karat is. You can then
put a drop of nitric acid in order to see the reaction.
