Gold Jewelry Design Ideas

Gold is one type of metal. The metal known as this precious metal is a metal with Au symbol which has atomic number 79. Pure gold has a shiny yellow color. Pure gold is tougher when compared to tin and no harder than silver. Pure gold is very rarely used as jewelry. To make it harder, pure gold needs to be added by other metals. The type of metal added is a metal that does not change the golden luster significantly. The added metal type also does not make the gold brittle.

In gold known as rust. Rust is a level of gold purity. The purity level of pure gold is 24 carats. When gold has 18 carats, it means that gold has 18/24 parts of gold or 75 percent gold and the rest of other metals. If gold has 14 carats, then gold is owned 14/24 gold, or 58.33 percent gold and the rest of other metals.