json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["Chemistry"],"appCategory":"Chemistry","appTitle":"Is \"karat\" a unit of measuring the purity of any compound or is it just a factor peculiar only to gold?","appBody":"<p>Karat is a unit of measure only for gold.</p>\n<p>Gold that is pure is 24 karat. That means that it is 100% pure gold. This is more expensive and certain jewelers only sell 24 karat. Mene is one of them and you are basically just buying the gold.</p>\n<p>18 karat is gold that is 75% gold and has other alloys added.</p>\n<p>14 Karat is only 58% gold lots of other metals</p>\n<p>10 karat is only 41% gold. lots of other metals</p>\n<p>Obviously the less gold that is in the jewelry the cheaper it should be. This is not always the case and suggest you look at Mene before purchasing any gold in the future.</p>\n<p>Don't get mixed up with Carat which refers to weight in precious stones.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"fkvkpc985","appParentAuthor":"rasamuel","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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