{"id":6135,"date":"2024-02-12T13:11:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T13:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efirgems.com\/carats-or-karats\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T11:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:26:23","slug":"carats-or-karats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efirgems.com\/en\/carats-or-karats\/","title":{"rendered":"Carats or Karats?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi everyone,<br\/>today we are going to talk about what the difference is in using the words &#8220;carat&#8221; vs &#8220;karat&#8221; when talking about gemstones or gold.<\/p>\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gold:<\/h5>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may have been interested in the small stamps on gold jewellery, such as &#8220;585&#8221;, which corresponds to 14 karats, or &#8220;750&#8221; &#8211; 18 karats. This is actually the gold purity of the metal alloy or put another way &#8211; 24 karats corresponds to &#8220;1000&#8221; which is pure gold, &#8220;585&#8221; is actually 58.5% gold and 41.5% impurities, &#8220;750&#8221; similarly means 75% gold and 25% impurities. As here it does not matter whether the gold is white or yellow. The colour is produced by the impurities in question, which can be silver, copper, nickel, platinum, palladium, etc.<\/p>\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gemstones:<\/h5>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The etymology of the word carat comes from the ancient Greek &#8220;keration&#8221;- meaning a type of carob seed that weighs exactly as much as 1 carat , namely 0.2 g. It is used as a unit of measurement for precious stones. That is, if you have, for example, a diamond that is 0.5 carats, it simply means that your stone weighs 0.1 gram.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hope you enjoyed reading it! Like, share and expect more new and interesting articles soon!<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kristina G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone,today we are going to talk about what the difference is in using the words &#8220;carat&#8221; vs &#8220;karat&#8221; when talking about gemstones or gold&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gemstones","category-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efirgems.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efirgems.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efirgems.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efirgems.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efirgems.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/efirgems.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6136,"href":"https:\/\/efirgems.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions\/6136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efirgems.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efirgems.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efirgems.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efirgems.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}