What Does Real Gold Jewelry Look Like

Fake gold chains are not made of solid gold and are often simply gold plated.

What does real gold jewelry look like.

The copper penny is in the photo to serve as a scale. The tiny nugget weighs 0 0035 troy ounce and at a gold price of 1200 ozt the nugget if it were pure gold would have a gold value of 4 20. However many pieces of gold jewelry have other metals mixed in causing the gold to become tarnished or discolored. This means that the chain is made of another metal or an alloy of non gold metals and is covered with just a thin layer of gold to make the jewelry look like a real gold piece.

A copper penny and a tiny gold nugget on a black streak plate with a small streak made by the nugget. Many manufacturers produce hollow also called semi hollow chains that are real gold but just a 1 4 of the weight. Natural gold looks like gold it looks like jewelry it s a buttery yellow color and it s soft looking. It is not just pure gold or 24 karat gold.

So while it may look like the jewelry is attracted to the magnet it s just the metal inside that specific piece that is doing the attracting not the gold. Fool s gold and other minerals that look like gold will not produce a weight difference between the pieces of quartz. All you have to do is carefully clean it to restore its original color and shine. Real gold is also malleable while typical fake gold is hard.

I am using a light source to show the difference between gold which shines and pyrite which sparkles. By law in the us gold filled must have at least twenty percent actual gold content. Real gold jewelry can eventually tarnish. Fake gold is also lightweight in most cases and even plating will not make a piece of fake gold weigh even a seventh of what real gold does in most cases.

They are hollow inside but still real. Real gold weighs about 1 5 times more than fool s gold or iron pyrite. Does it float like a feather. This is better quality and it wears and looks like karat gold.

When your gold jewelry tarnishes it doesn t mean that it s not real gold. You can easily fix a piece of tarnished gold jewelry. Be sure to test all parts of the jewelry including the chain clasp charms band centerpiece etc. Should you ever want to sell the item it is of no interest to a gold buyer or refiner unless they can get many pounds at a time.

Most types of fake gold may look shinier or duller in different lights and may appear almost silver at times. Pure gold does not react with oxygen which means it is unlikely to tarnish. Now it is important to note that an item could be hollow and could be real at the same time. This is to reduce cost of course think gold hoop earrings.

In fact the piece with gold colored particles inside may even be lighter than your other piece of quartz if the gold is not real.