Jewelry is always prestigious and stylish. Fashion for the purchase of elegant pendants, ornate chains and beautiful elegant rings never fades. A huge number of jewelry craftsmen daily work on the creation of new products that attract the attention of potential consumers. It is worth noting that the most popular items among jewelry lovers are items made of gold. At the same time, products containing one hundred percent pure material are rare. This is due to the properties of the precious metal. Gold is a very soft element. Unless other components are added to it, objects made from it turn out to be unstable and quickly lose their shape. Therefore, even to create jewelry of the highest quality, it is customary to use alloys, which later receive the name "test". As a rule, in these compounds along with gold there is another component: silver, copper, nickel, etc.
Adding Extra Ingredients
Depending on the proportion of the precious metal in the jewelry, various samples are isolated. So, if the product contains up to one percent of a foreign element, this product is considered the “cleanest”. The sample of such an item is the 999th. When the mixed element occupies twenty-five percent in the entire volume of the alloy, and gold occupies seventy-five percent, such a product will bear the “750” mark. 585 test means that in the created item there are fifty eight and a half percent of the precious metal. The rest of the composition is impurities of copper and silver.
Appearance story
It is noteworthy that the 585 sample came into use relatively recently: in 1989. What was the impetus for the creation of this alloy? In the USSR that existed at that time, products with 583 samples were especially popular. Such an alloy was called “pure gold”. However, in Europe, for one gram with such a breakdown they gave too low a price, because by its characteristics it did not reach the minimum British unit - fourteen-carat gold. In order to equalize the cost indicators, it was customary to slightly change the composition of the 583rd sample. Instead of 58.3% of gold, 58.5% of the precious metal was added to the alloy. The amount of silver and copper impurities was set at 8% and 33.5%, respectively. It was from the end of 1989 on the territory of the USSR that the test on gold "585" began to be popular. As an addition to this alloy, on the products next to the numbers was an image of a girl in a kokoshnik. The "predecessor" of this alloy - 583 composition - was accompanied by a stigma with a star.
Great for daily use.
Gradually, products with this alloy began to be recognized and acquired not only in the countries of the former Soviet Union, but also abroad. Buyers were attracted not only by an acceptable price, but also by the amazing wear resistance of jewelry, on which 585 samples were affixed. The daily use of jewelry with this composition, their strength, shape stability - all these became the main criteria that buyers turned to before purchasing the next product. High-quality five hundred and eighty-fifth alloy confidently led among other analogues. Its relevance has become indisputable proof that the 585 test is a good substitute for the more expensive and not so strong 750th composition. Jewelry bearing the mark in question began to be called "Russian" gold.
Varieties
Currently, more and more people have jewelry made using the alloy in question in their casket. On the shelves of jewelry stores you can see a huge number of products that have the stigma "Proof 585". Rings and bracelets, chains and pendants, pendants and earrings, various sets - all kinds of conceivable and inconceivable objects are made of an alloy that has already become familiar. In addition, this material is currently used to create accessories, mobile phone covers, designer clothes and much more.
It will be useful to note that in addition to the usual “Russian” gold with the composition in question, there is also white gold 585 of the sample. The amount of valuable material in one gram of an alloy with such a characteristic and its yellow “brother” is identical to each other. Only ligatures change - additional ingredients added. So, if a white gold product has a radiance of steel, then this indicates the presence of such an element as palladium in the jewelry. If the item pleases with a yellowish, barely visible shade, this indicates the use of nickel in its manufacture.
The cost of one gram
The abundance of various items made of precious metal cannot but please potential buyers. Their value is even more enjoyable: the 585 sample, like all other gold samples, is closely related to the exchange rate for precious metals. Therefore, if the price per gram of pure material changes, the price of alloys with its use also changes. To date, the value of gold without impurities has established at the level of 1.320 thousand rubles per kilogram. Therefore, taking into account impurities, one gram of “Russian” gold will be sold for 800–830 rubles.