Does anyone know why gold is tested in carrots.. i think i know but i want to see if its the right answer?

Answer 1

That's carats.

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

Therefore 24-karat gold is pure gold (99.99%), 12-karat gold is 50% purity, 18-karat gold is 75% purity etc.

The word derives from the Greek keration (fruit of the carob), via Arabic and Italian. Carob seeds were used as weights on precision scales because of their reputation for having a uniform weight; a 2006 study [1] by Lindsay Turnbull & others found this to not be the case - carob seeds have as much variation in their weights as other seeds[2]. In the distant past, different countries each had their own carat, roughly equivalent to a carob seed. In the mid-16th century, it was adopted as a measure of gold purity, roughly equivalent to the Roman siliqua (one twenty-fourth of a golden solidus of Constantine I As a measure of diamond weight, from 1575. The Gk. measure was the equivalent of the Roman siliqua, which was ¹⁄₂₄ of a golden solidus of Constantine; but was likely never used to measure the weight for gold.[

Answer 2

Gold is not tested in carrots, its purity is rated in karats.
24 karat gold is 100 % gold.
12 karat gold is a 50-50 alloy of gold and some other metal.

Answer 3

well if your talking about gold then your probably talking about Karats.

Carrots are orange vegitable that you eat. Karats is a measurement of finess of gold. 24 is pure gold (24/24) 12K is half pure (24/12).