If You Have 2 Exact Gold Chains, One Is 10k And The Other Is 14k. Should They Be The Same Weight?
Written by Admin on September 1, 2009No they power not impact the same weight. Since arrangement and grade are the factors in determining mass, inner 2 materials having the same arrangement and same grade power impact the same mass. 24k antimonial (pure gold) power impact a accruement observed by its exact grade (since decent antimonial has a observed density). As the karats descend, the antimonial noesis gets diminutive owed to the have of added metals. Therefore, you today impact to avow into evidence the arrangement of the added metals in the chain. I would envisage that the add the karat, the base the “gold” weighs since they are belike using a metal not as heavy as gold.
An analogy: You impact 3 of the same glasses filled to the same level. They power coequal 24k 14k and 10k antimonial chains.
The 24k is filled inner with heavy cream.
The 14k is filled with half instrumentation and half water.
The 10k is filled with 25% cream, and the rest water.
Since heavy instrumentation is denser than water, and they every avow up the same volume, they power dissent in weight… Sorry for such a daylong acknowledgement =o)~
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8:53 pm on September 1st, 2009
No because 14k has more gold in it than 10k, which means the 10k is made up of a different material with a different weight
24K gold is pure gold
18K 75% gold
14K 58.3% gold
12K 50% gold
10K 41.7% gold
11:53 pm on September 1st, 2009
gold jewelry is rated in “karats” and is based on parts of gold out of 24. 24k gold is pure gold, is very soft and no good for use in most jewelry because it is easily deformed. Jewelers normally mix another metal with gold to harden it, creating an alloy that is generally 22k, 18k, 14k, or 10k. 22k is 22 parts gold and 2 parts of another metal, often silver. 18k is 18 parts gold and 6 parts of other metal(s). 14k is14 parts gold and 10 parts other metal. 10k is 10 parts gold and 14 parts of non-gold metals.
Jewelry of 10k or higher purity will be stamped with the rating.
2 gold chains that look exactly alike, one of 10k gold and one of 14k gold CAN look alike and be the same size IF the alloyed metals in the 10k chain are denser (and heavier) than the alloyed metals in the 14k chain.
IF the alloyed metals in both chains are the SAME, the two chains CANNOT be the same size and have the same weight. In that case, the 14K gold will be denser and have a smaller volume.
A king gave a pile of gold to a metalsmith and ordered that a crown be made from the gold. The king got his crown, but did not really trust the metalsmith and thought that the metalsmith may have kept some of the gold for himself and used cheaper metal to make up the crown. The crown weighed as much as the gold that the king had given for it. The king asked Archimedes to determine whether the crown was solid gold, as it was supposed to be, or if the metalsmith had stolen some of the gold. Archimedes, while thinking about the problem, sat in a bathtub of water. He saw the water rise on the sides of the tub. At this point, he supposedly yelled Eureka and ran out into the streets naked, claiming that he had “found it”. What he realized was that gold, a very dense, heavy metal, took up less space than other metals, and would push less water out of a tub than the same WEIGHT of other metals. Archimedes asked the king for a pile of gold that weighed the same as the crown. He put the gold into a tub of water and marked the level of the water. He then put the crown into the tub. If the crown were pure gold, the water should rise to the same level as the other gold did. The water rose higher in the tub when the crown was submerged, proving that the crown was NOT pure gold and that the metalsmith had taken some of the gold meant for the crown. The crown was not 24k as claimed by the metalsmith.
2:54 am on September 2nd, 2009
no
8:13 am on September 2nd, 2009
It all really depends upon the weight of the impurities. I assume it would be possible, but I would venture to say unlikely.