The ways for distinguishing golden ornaments

To be professional in identifying golden may need much experience. For some daily tips while shopping the golden jewelries, you can just follow the suggestions below:

1. Observe the color. The color can exactly show the purity of the golden material, the deeper with color, and the more pure of the origin golden. In most situation, the purity of the deep red-yellow one can over 95%, the light red-yellow about 90%-95%, light yellow is 80%-95%, the next are blue-yellow, light blue-yellow and yellowish ones, the purity are 65—70％, 50--60％ and even lower.

2. Weigh in hands. The golden have a specific gravity of 19.32, so that it will be heavier than silver, copper, lead, aluminum and some other metals. When you weigh them in hands, you may have a dropping feeling.

3. Test the hardness. The pure golden can be soft and may leave a slight cut easily.

4. Hear the sound. When throw the pure golden onto the ground, the sound is clear and have no resilience.

5. Test with the fire. This can be come out of a Chinese old say that “a good anvil does not fear the hammer”! Glow the golden, after cooling you will find that the pure one can maintain the origin color well.