{"id":8179,"date":"2025-09-27T19:27:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/gold\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:25:48","slug":"gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In goldsmithing, pure metal is never used; this is done not to reduce the cost of the product, but because precious metals would not have the mechanical properties necessary for machining.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then ,once mined ,Gold can be processed by melting it together with other more or less noble metals, resulting in a precious metal alloy.<\/p>\n\n<p>Gold still remains prevalent, but will have a lower purity due to the presence of other metals.<\/p>\n\n<p>Alloys are obtained by exploiting the properties that Copper and Silver have of changing the color of pure gold to red and green, respectively.<\/p>\n\n<p>By varying the proportions of copper and silver, the color of gold varies from red, to pink ,to yellow and green (little known and used).<\/p>\n\n<p>White gold, on the other hand, as we know it now, was introduced in the 1920s in order to be able to produce white jewelry at a lower cost, compared to using platinum, which was the only alternative at the time.<\/p>\n\n<p>To measure the loss of purity of the metal, gold carats (Kt not to be confused with Ct units of measurement for diamonds)intervene, which are intended to titrate the amount of pure gold present in the metal alloy.<\/p>\n\n<p>Kt then, corresponds to a unit of measurement that indicates the purity of the gold present within a precious object according to the parts of pure metal it contains.<\/p>\n\n<p>There are different carats of gold, the most commonly used being:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>9 Kt in which the percentage of pure gold is 37.5 percent<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>14 Kt in which the percentage of pure gold is 58.33%.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>18 Kt in which the percentage of pure gold is 75 %.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>22 Kt in which the percentage of pure gold is 91.67%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>24 kt in which the percentage of pure gold is 99.99 %.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In goldsmithing, pure metal is never used; this is done not to reduce the cost of the product, but because precious metals would not have the mechanical properties necessary for machining. Then ,once mined ,Gold can be processed by melting it together with other more or less noble metals, resulting in a precious metal alloy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-senza-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8180,"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions\/8180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqvaandcoshop.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}