What Is 14K Rose Gold?

Karat

• The karat is 1/24 (or 4.1667 percent) of the whole amount of metal, making 24 karat gold pure gold. 14 karat gold is gold comprised of a ratio of 10 parts alloy to 14 parts gold, or an alloy of gold containing 41.7 alloying metal and 58.3 percent gold.

Rose Gold Alloy Metal

• The alloy used to make rose gold is commonly either copper or a combination of 90 percent copper and 10 percent silver.

History

• The usage of the karat for measuring gold quantity comes from the medieval coin known as the mark, which weighed 24 carats.

Considerations

• Pink gold may define a rose gold with more silver in its alloy, and red gold may be used to refer to gold with more copper or only copper in its alloy.

Features

• On the Moh's scale of hardess (a relative hardness scale ranging from one to 10, 10 being the hardest) rose gold rates 2.5 and melts at 240 degrees Celsius.