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
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