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About the Store | Jewelry & Gemstones
What is Pink Gold?
In it's pure form, gold is too soft to be used for general jewelry although there are some cultures which do wear pure gold jewelry, it would need to be heavily made and carefully used. It is usual for gold to be mixed with other metals to produce an alloy. Throughout history people have preferred the color of gold jewelry to remain close to that of pure gold itself, so this jewelry is made using gold alloys. Other metals mixed with gold to produce allows include copper and silver, which are the common components of most yellow gold alloys. Nickel, zinc and palladium are used when creating white alloys.
It is very simple to produce a gold alloy with a reddish coloration. All that is needed is to increase the proportion of copper in the mixture. To maintain the correct proportion of gold in the alloy you need to decrease the silver content.
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