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In India Gold jewelry is associated with the tradition & culture wherever you go across, the gold jewelry is the sign of fulfillment & royalty, its rich & elegant shine has been attracting the females since ancient era, Gold jewelry has never been out of fashion, it has its presence in the fashion on top priority, the gold cannot be ignored when it comes to a complete woman, it makes it so.
Pure gold is very soft and moulds in any shape of your choice like thing strands, thick biscuits to bricks, that means it has got the manipulated nature which bends it the way you want this to be bended, but as it is so soft, so putting on pure gold seems very tough. It is not feasible to wear pure gold jewelry in routine, this is the reason behind that other metals are used to make it hard, durable & wearable, some people are allergic or have staining problem with other metals but it happens rare with the gold jewelry which is again a friendly behavior of it.
Mixing of metals enable metallurgists to create a variety of shades in gold, Palladium is used to create white gold which is in the latest fashion now a days, where as copper generates rose or pink tint and silver produces greenish cast with the gold.
Purity of gold jewelry is identified or determined by its Karat "K" that is the measurement unit which shows how pure the gold is, the higher the karat value the higher will be the percent of gold in a jewelry, In Indian (Asian) market 24 K gold is hall marked as the pure gold, 18 K gold contains 18 karat of gold and 6 parts of one or more additional metals that makes it 75 % gold; similarly, 14K gold possesses 14 parts gold & 10 parts of other metals making it 58.3 % gold, 12k Gold is the combination of 12 part of gold and 12 of other metals that is 50% gold and 10K gold has 10 parts of gold and 14 of other material making it 41.7 5 gold.
Karat is the measurement unit that is used to measure the purity of gold in US too, while in Europe it is the number marking standard that is used to measure the gold like gold 750 denotes the particular jewelry as 75 % gold, so do remember that the jewelry should be hall marked on the basis of quality standard popular in respective nation to annoy any kind of cheating with you.
Above all, the best part with the gold jewellery is its nature of getting mixed up with any metal combination, so you can get every body part jewelry made of Gold in the market and remember jewelry is not just the fashion, it may solve the dual purpose of being into fashion & a future investment, it is considered as the wealth statement of a person, so you can even think of investing your money in gold, as the price of the gold never goes down.
