
Solid Gold Jewelry never goes out of style and most people will always wear them as long as it keeps on shining and looks beautiful. Pure Gold doesn't react with other elements to create tarnish. Gold only accumulates grimes from soap and other harmful chemicals but it can always be cleaned and retain its original condition and you can always make it shiny. Gold can be worked into nearly any shape and it can be manipulated nearly any way the artisan desires.
Purity of Gold jewelry The higher the karat number, the higher the percentage of gold in your gold jewelry. Jewelry is marked 10K, 14K, or 18K to identify the percentage of pure gold a jewelry contains.
24K is pure gold.
18K gold contains 18 parts gold and 6 parts of one or more additional metals. 75% gold.
14K gold contains 14 parts gold and 10 parts of one or more additional metals. 58.3% gold.
10K gold contains 10 parts gold and 14 parts of one or more additional metals. 41.7% gold.
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