I've never owned white gold and I would not bother because the point of wearing gold for most people is that it looks like gold and has a beautiful yellow colour. Some people wear gold because they are allergic to other materials but most wear it for the beautiful yellow shades that it comes in.
No it’s not, it’s mostly yellow gold mixed with white metal mostly rhodium to give it a white appearance, I love the look of it, it looks almost like silver but more white or brighter I have a white gold 18k pendent @Rosexøxø
@aquamarine321 After some quick skimming I realized/ confirmed: gold is naturally yellow. My terminology of ‘bleaching’ isn’t wrong/ I’ll-used because bleaching is ‘whitening’ by a chemical process, and alloys (metals) are chemically compounded and chemically melted/combined together with natural gold. The golden- earth stain is whitened and thus, “royally” bleached. :]
No wonder it seemed unreal to me- also I’m a huge lover of gold and that appreciation comes a lot from its warm color <3
Here’s some quick finds:
“White gold is not found in nature, since the element from the earth is pure yellow gold (referred to as 24k). In order to achieve a whiter hue, other metals are added to the pure yellow gold.” https://www.kristincoffin.com › news
Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more Search for a word bleach /blēCH/ Learn to pronounce verb gerund or present participle: bleaching 1. whiten by exposure to sunlight or by a chemical process. "paper products are bleached with chlorine"
“An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements, which forms an impure substance (admixture) that retains the characteristics of a metal.” - Wikipedia lol
@Robbey yes I trust that find- also just for clarification and my own sanity of thought: Gold Zinc
and Nickel
Are not the same metals-
Any percentage of them found anywhere together, would prove nothing other than *three entirely different metals* in make up, malleability, and appearance- were found/ discovered together.
It depends on the quality, some pieces are just yellow gold plated in white metal (platinum, palladium or rhodium) but better makers will make an alloy of gold with other 'white metal' components such as zinc, nickel (not in Europe), silver and the aforementioned metals in top shelf designer pieces by the likes of Cartier and Harry Winston
@jamesgoldman ah nice! Thank you so much for the contribution! I honestly wasn’t sure what your stance on it was. I’ll have to read it again and check for sure!
For the sake of my sanity, I never stated that zinc and nickel weren’t two separate metals (as my initial comment clearly reflects and my second comment apparently did not).
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