what is 10kt yellow gold made from?

Answer 1

Pure gold is 24 KT and very yellow - it is also very soft and is not suitable for jewelry. Other metals are added to the pure gold to give it hardness (depending on the other metal, it can change the color - reds, greens, etc.). The more other metal(s) you add, the smaller the proportion of pure gold, and the smaller the KT rating.

The quality of the gold (KT) is usually stamped somewhere on the jewelry (beware, people have been known to stamp a higher KT value on lower end jewelry in order to charge more money).

10 KT gold is very low end, and looks it. The jewelry standard in the US has generally been 14 KT; in Italy it is 18 KT; and in the Middle East it is 22 KT.

Answer 2

Carat or karat (abbreviation: ct or kt) is a measure of the purity of gold and platinum alloys. In the United States and Canada, the spelling karat is usually used for the measure of purity, while carat refers to the measure of mass (see Carat). As a measure of purity, one carat is one twenty-fourth purity by weight:


where

X is the carat rating of the material,
Mg is the mass of pure gold or platinum in the material, and
Mm is the total mass of the material.
Therefore 24-carat gold is pure gold (99.99%), 12-carat gold is 50% purity, 18-carat gold is 75% purity etc.

The carat system is increasingly being complemented or superseded by the millesimal fineness system in which the purity of precious metals is denoted by parts per thousand of pure metal in the alloy.

The most common carats used for gold in bullion, jewelery making and goldsmithing are:

24 carat (millesimal fineness 999)
22 carat (millesimal fineness 916)
20 carat (millesimal fineness 833)
18 carat (millesimal fineness 750)
16 carat (millesimal fineness 625)
14 carat (millesimal fineness 585)
10 carat (millesimal fineness 417)
9 carat (millesimal fineness 375)

Answer 3

10kt yellow gold

Answer 4

Gold has to be mixed. usually it is mixed with copper. the copper serves to hold the gold together because gold by itself would fall apart. Usually 10k gold would have 45% copper or some other mineral that serves to hold the gold together and 55% gold.

Answer 5

Purely by coincidence, 10carat yellow gold, wierd.

Answer 6

it's made from lower quality gold i think, this means it possibly has traces of other minerals in it. this is good as it's stronger than 18kt or 21kt etc, the higher the kt the purer but softer the gold, i think?

Answer 7

10 parts gold in an100 In England it is common to find 9,14,18,22. 24 is really to soft to use,but you will find a lot of the "middle eastern" countries

Answer 8

Most of it would be copper, if you wear it you would most likely get a blue stain on the skin, should be good for arthritis

Answer 9

gold!

Answer 10

squash?