Why 24 carat gold is not used for making jewelry ?
CLASS 10 METALS AND NON METALS
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24 karat gold is so soft, that it could easily be deformed and lose its firm grip on a jewel and allow it to slip or fall out of your ornament. Hence, order to have an ornament that is stronger. ... Gold of less than 24k is always an alloy with other metals, such as copper, silver or platinum.
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24 carat good is pure gold.They are very soft and are not suitable for making jewelleries.
Therefore in jewelleries it alloyed with copper or silver to make it hard ,18 carat gold is prepared by alloying
18 parts pure gold with 6 part of either copper or silver .In jewelleries 18 carat gold is used instead of 24 carat pure gold
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