Gold craze is very high in India. From weddings to festivals, buying gold jewelery has been a tradition on every occasion. But gold prices have been touching the sky for some time. Today, the price of 24 carat gold has reached about 1 lakh per 10 grams. It has also become difficult for the common man to buy 22 carats or 18 carat jewelery at this price. Especially people from middle class and small towns now find some light, affordable options instead of heavy jewelry.
In such a situation, 9 carat gold jewelery is growing rapidly by becoming a new option. Gold has become so expensive that people are taking interest in shopping for cheap 9 carat jewelery instead of 22 or 18 carats. But there are many people confused about this, how much its quality is affected. So let us know how bad the jewelery made from 9 carat gold will be and will it be seen on seeing its adulteration.
How bad will the jewelery be made from 9 carat gold?
When we talk about 9 carats, it means only 37.5 percent pure gold in it, the rest is of other strong metals such as copper, silver and zinc. Its jewelery is more strong and durable. In such a situation, the jewelery made from 9 carat gold will not be very bad, but it is just a low purity, but real gold option. It is certified through BIS, and 375 written hallmarks on jewelery suggests that it has 37.5 percent gold. Therefore it is not adulterated.
Is 9 carat gold adulteration detected?
A common man will not know whether jewelery is 9 carats or 22 carats because both look golden and shiny. The copper, silver and zinc used in it gives him color like gold. Also, it looks like good polish and quite pure gold from design. Apart from this, it is necessary to have hallmarking on every jewelry in today’s time. BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) has implemented a special system for this. In which BIS logo, 375 which is 9 carats and HUID number, a unique code that gives full details of that jewelery. You can know that the jewel is real by scan or typing this HUID number through the BIS-Care app.
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