Best Quality Gold Plated Jewelry

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Gold plated jewelry is the solution to this problem. These cool state necklaces are available for all 50 states. Are you shopping for the best wholesale gold plated jewelry you should know that there are two types of gold jewelry that are sold in the wholesale jewelry market wholesale gold plated jewelry and gold filled jewelry wholesale. As we learned in the last article plating is used to decorate objects for corrosion inhibition to improve solderability to harden to.

Gold plated jewelry gives the outward appearance of gold jewelry without the crazy cost. Perhaps you have heard of white gold which is an alloy of yellow gold and a white metal for example palladium. The term plating is actually short for electroplating without getting technical or boring anyone gold plating or electroplating is the process of covering one metal with a thin layer of another gold in the case of gold plating. Gold plated jewelry is a good substitute for solid gold jewelry because it is difficult to tell the difference between the two and gold plated.

However gold jewelry is unfortunately very expensive. Essentially gold plated jewelry is the same thing as vermeil jewelry only the base metal is of a lower quality than silver such as copper or brass. Gold plated jewelry costs less than a solid gold piece. In contrast to vermeil there are no specific requirements for gold plated jewelry.

Gold plating comes in varying levels of quality largely depending on the thickness and purity of the gold coating the base metal used for the piece and the quality of craftsmanship. However you may find it interesting to learn that since this alloy usually looks yellowish it is often plated with rhodium to give it a pure white color. Gold filled jewelry has double the gold of gold plated pieces. The gold can be of any quality and the electroplated layer can be any thickness.

Gold filled is also more tarnish resistant.