Gold Jewelry
Written by aditruhai on August 31st, 2009Gold Jewelry – The History
Gold Jewelry
Gold is one of the oldest of metals in the soil. Historians say that gold is known that the man even before 3600 BC. From that moment the man was obsessed with the glint of gold. Young men and old have lost their minds the glitter of gold and fascinated by the beauty of its yellow color.
The Egyptians seem to be the first to have used gold as seen in their petroglyphs. They learned the art of finding gold and purifies the upper grades. The use of gold for making ornaments and jewelry has been dominated by the Egyptians in gold jewelry and other adornments to find a prominent place among the great kings of their robes and ordinary people.
The story also refers to gold in various epics and religious inscriptions, like the Book of Genesis, Exodus XXV, and the writings of Homer, Sophocles, Herodotus, Pliny and others. This shows that gold has a history of more than 5000 years in this world.
Gold as a mineral is widespread in nature, regardless of the seas, lakes, mountains, plains and deserts. In some places it was observed as a single pool and separate with the highest purity. But elsewhere found with other elements such as silver, copper, etc. in its purity is relatively low. The purest form of gold deposits led gold purity above 92%. This gold is widely used to make gold jewelry and ornaments of great value Carat.
Gold has become one of the indicators of wealth and status of a person and his family increased with the play of the possession of large quantities of gold. Even if gold is used as ingots, bars and coins when used as a medium of exchange. But most of gold is used for the manufacture of gold jewelry is widely used around the world.
Gold jewelry is so widely used mainly for its beauty, size, color and brightness. Properties of gold is the best metal to make very complex projects and is processed to make it more attractive.
If the gold is very soft, can not be used as such to make gold jewelry and ornaments. To make it strong and resist the imposition of intricate designs in a number of other metals like silver, copper, bronze and iron are also added in small quantities. The quality of gold jewelry is measured in carats, which is determined by the purity of gold jewelry.
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