[Jewelry making - Article 00111] - [Orchid] Goldsmithing Research Question from a Fiction Writer

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    plating as compared to real gold-24kt, even if your plating gold is
    22k it will show subtile differences in deposition. the mellow
    yellow of pure gold is hard to reproduce as most high carat plating
    is not above 22k as you need alloys to keep the plating from rubbing
    of on the hands. riser marks. in reproduction casting the risers are
    filed and that increases the hardness making it more noticble than
    if it was a burnout replacement casting. also if pure gold then only
    atomic testing of the molecules structure will show the impurities
    and the level of more noble metals leading to where it came from 

John AKA Ringman

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