Despite using them a lot in everyday life, even distinguishing them by converting them into money in the market, many people do not understand at what point they differ. After that, let’s go Vang Thanh Y distinguish these three types of gold through the article below.

White Gold

White gold is created from the melting of precious metals in the right proportions to gold, which after crystallization will obtain a white alloy. In other words, White Gold is a compound of metal multi-elements that is not a single substance present in the Mendeleep periodic table. The ingredients contained in White Gold include: Gold and other rare metals such as Nickel, Pladi, Platinum,… Thus, white gold is guaranteed by the amount of gold contained in it. The school often applies the calculation of Western Gold to calculate the value and price for White Gold.

White gold has a pure white color, sparkling metallicity along with hard, flexible properties that make White Gold reflective, elastic and resistant to friction when wearing so less deformed wear, breakage, especially capable of firmly holding gemstones, diamonds on jewelry.

Some people confuse white gold as Platinum, but in reality Platinum is another precious metal. Platinum is usually distinguished from White Gold based on factors such as color: Platinum is usually a natural metallic white slightly receding to silver gray, the shine is usually inferior to White Gold. While the original color of White Gold is ivory white, when used to make jewelry, the worker must coat a layer of Rhodium – a metal more precious than Gold to It gives a bright white color to the product. After the use of this rhodium layer gradually disappeared, jewelry needed to be re-plated to keep the white beauty as it was originally.

My Gold

Gold is also an alloy with mostly pure gold and a handful of other precious metals. Gold usually contains most of the pure gold content, so it is usually darker yellow and more valuable than Western Gold. Gold is quite soft and suffers poor impact. Jewelry made of Gold I must not be diverse because it is difficult to style, attach gemstones. Therefore, most of the gold is usually used only on special occasions such as weddings, parties.

Western Gold

Western gold is the most commonly used type of gold. In the market, Western Gold is regulated by the number of “age” gold, i.e.: the percentage of the content of pure gold contained in jewelry. Depending on the requirements and needs of each type of Jewelry, the jeweler will mix different metals with Gold to craft. Western gold often has tougher, more durable and hard properties, so it is often used to make popular jewelry.

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