How can you tell if gold is real or not,while at home???What should use that o.k and will test it correctly?

Answer 1

This is a tough one, gold produced in a number of countries carries a government stamp (called a Hall Mark in the U.K.) which is a guarantee of its purity. Other countries, in particular the USA, do not have such laws and the marks put on gold do not have any legal status. There is also the problem of items which have a thick gold outer covering but a base metal core, the weight feels about right and the surface tests as gold, but.......
It is possible to buy small gold testing kits which use various acid solutions to indicate the carat purity of gold and platinum. These can be obtained from any good jeweller's supply company. Word of advice when acid testing - on an unseen part of the item make a cut with the edge of a file and go in quite deep - test on this part as it may show that the item is plated and not solid. Do not trust gold coins either, I was offered a chain belt made from English gold "sovereigns" I was a but suspicious when I noticed two that had different kings on the front but the same date on the back. They turned out to be 9ct. forgeries worth nothing as coins and were only fit for the scrap pot.

Answer 2

Weigh the necklace, checklist it (in grams). Then, take a graduated cylinder (milliliter measurements). Fill it with some water and notice how severe that is. placed the necklace in and checklist the quantity. Divide the mass by ability of the quantity to get the density of the necklace. Gold is nineteen.3 grams/mL, so if that's what you get, or close to to it, that is real. of direction that is if that is 24-karat gold. From the solutions above I see 14k won't be one hundred% gold, so, uh, bypass with the acid try.

Answer 3

bite it