How to recognize thousand gold earrings?

How can gold recognize whether it is thousand-foot gold? We can look at it through three aspects, namely, the color, weight and hardness of thousand gold. These three aspects will be able to tell if it is thousand gold.

One, look at the color of thousand gold: thousand gold jewelry, the higher the purity, the deeper the color. General can be determined by the color of the general color (to the green gold as a guideline. The so-called green gold is gold containing only silver components); deep reddish yellow color in more than 95%, light reddish yellow 90 - 95%, light yellow 80 - 85%, greenish yellow 65 - 70%, color green with white light is only 50 - 60%, slightly yellow and white is less than 50%.

Two, look at the weight of gold: the specific gravity of gold is 19.32, heavier than silver, copper, lead, zinc, aluminum and other metals. As the volume of gold than silver more than 40%, heavier than copper 1.times. 18k gold pendant or gold earrings and other gold jewelry in the hands should be sinking feeling, fake gold jewelry feel light. To note that the above judgment method does not apply to the gold jewelry inlaid with gemstones.

Three, look at the hardness of gold: pure gold is soft, low hardness, with the fingernail can be scratched out shallow traces, teeth bite can leave teeth marks, generally high color gold jewelry than the color of the low soft, containing more copper is the more hard. We can test the hardness with the bending method, pure gold is soft, easy to bend, the lower the purity of gold, the more difficult to bend.

After reading the above three methods, we are not on the identification of thousand gold has a new understanding? Then in the future when we choose thousand gold earrings, we can refer to the above instructions to buy.