White Gold VS Yellow Gold

As the term indicates ‘it is gold which is white in color’. Mostly people prefer yellow gold over white gold, as people might just call your white gold jewellery as silver jewellery, and that might just ruin all your desires to show off your wealth ;)

But few people think white gold looks more classy, and so do I J

White gold basically differs slightly in the composition as compared to the yellow gold, and rest all the other variants are same, like price, or even the measure of purity of gold i.e it can be 18kt or 14kt or even lower, similar to yellow gold.

White gold composition:

Pure gold + Silver+Palladium

White gold is generally dull grey in color, the shiny white color which is available in the market is due to the White Rhodium plating, Rhodium is a harder substance which is white in color and gives that shine to the white gold products.

karat Carat Difference

A lot of people get confused between the two K/Carats used in jewellery terminology, at one point of time even I was L, I would try to get the difference cleared in the simplest way possible J

Karat: it is the term associated with ‘Gold’ precisely ‘Purity of gold’. Denoted as kt, It is basically reveals the amount of pure gold in any product, Gold is available in varied purities, whenever you go out in the market to buy gold jewellery, the karatage of gold in each product may vary, which means one product can have lesser value of gold in it for say 14 karat, while the other can have a higher value of gold, may be 22 karat.

The most common forms of gold available are- (the rest of the % is of alloys in the below mentioned values)

24 karat -100% gold

22 karat -91.7% gold

18 karat -75% gold

14 karat – 58.3% gold

The karatage gives the value of the gold, which means the higher the karat of gold more expensive it is i.e. the value and price of 22 kt is more than 18kt gold.

Carat- it is the term associated with ‘Diamonds’ and other Precious and semi precious stones. It is the unit of weight, used to measure the weights of diamonds and other stones.

1 carat= 200 milligrams

For example: if the jewellery piece you are buying has a gross weight of 40 grams and has 5 carats of diamond, it is easy to find out the individual weights of gold and the diamonds, here:

Gross weight=40 Gms

Diamond carat=3 i.e 600 milligrams

Gold weight in the piece will be= 40gms-600mg= 39.4 gms