What makes different colors of gold?

Question

Is white gold REALLY gold? What makes it different from yellow gold? What is rose gold?

Answer 1

Elemental gold come in only one colour, mixing other metals with gold (alloying - hence the reason for other colours) is done really to allow a manufacturer to make the metal easy to work and (emmmm) spread out whatever amount of real gold they have. And make mo money.

Rose gold is somewhat reddish - from the high amounts of Copper

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Answer 2

White gold is heated with silver or another whitish metal, such as palladium, to get it's ligher tone. So, yes, it's a form of gold, but it's a combination of gold and other elements. (Essentially, it's a cheaper platinum lookalike)Yellow gold is the "pure" form of gold, just solid gold with no additives.

Rose gold is gold that is heated with a copper alloy to give it a pink hue. It's not pure gold due to its chemical makeup, and was popular in early 19th century Russia. It's also known as red gold or pink gold.

Answer 3

White gold is an alloy of gold meaning that it has another element too it such as silver or palladium.


Rose gold is a gold and copper alloy.

Answer 4

Chemistry
Colloidal gold, suspension of sub-micrometre-sized particles of gold in a fluid
Gold chalcogenides, gold compounds with anions from periodic table group 16
Gold halide, metal halide
Gold plating, method of depositing a thin layer of gold on the surface of other metal
Rose gold, gold and copper alloy widely used for specialized jewelry due to its reddish color
White gold, alloy of gold and at least one white metal

Answer 5

The color of gold is based on what other metals it is alloyed with. White gold is really gold, yes. It is mixed with zinc, nickel or silver, while yellow gold is mixed with copper.