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  2. Gold plating - Wikipedia

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    Gold flashed / Gold washed - gold layer thickness less than 0.5 micron; Gold plated - gold layer thickness greater than or equal to 0.5 micron; Heavy gold plated / Vermeil - gold layer thickness greater than or equal to 2.5 micron; Gold plated silver jewellery can still tarnish as the silver atoms diffuse into the gold layer, causing slow ...

  3. Hardnesses of the elements (data page) - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 16 November 2024, at 12:16 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  4. Hardness - Wikipedia

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    In materials science, hardness (antonym: softness) is a measure of the resistance to localized plastic deformation, such as an indentation (over an area) or a scratch (linear), induced mechanically either by pressing or abrasion.

  5. Jewelry wire - Wikipedia

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    Most jewelry wire that is sold now is designated dead soft, half-hard, or hard, where dead soft is wire that is manufactured with a hardness of 0, half-hard is wire manufactured with a hardness of 2, and fully hardened wire is wire with a hardness of 4. Boxes of jewellery wire. The left hand box has gold-plated, silver-plated and copper wire.

  6. Vickers hardness test - Wikipedia

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    As a rule of thumb the sample thickness should be kept greater than 2.5 times the indent diameter. Alternatively indent depth, t {\displaystyle t} , can be calculated according to: t = d a v g 2 2 tan ⁡ θ 2 ≈ d a v g 7.0006 , {\displaystyle t={\frac {d_{\rm {avg}}}{2{\sqrt {2}}\tan {\frac {\theta }{2}}}}\approx {\frac {d_{\rm {avg}}}{7. ...

  7. Good Delivery - Wikipedia

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    Good Delivery gold bar weighing 12.4 kilograms (400 ozt) Good Delivery silver bar weighing 31.1 kilograms (1,000 ozt) The Good Delivery specification is a set of rules issued by the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) describing the physical characteristics of gold and silver bars used in settlement in the wholesale London bullion market. [1]

  8. Gold-filled jewelry - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Trade Commission allows the use of the terms "rolled gold plate," "R.G.P" or "gold overlay" on items with lower thicknesses of gold than are required for "gold-filled." [ 3 ] An example would be an item stamped as " 1 ⁄ 40 10kt RGP" meaning that the object is plated with 10kt gold at a thickness that makes weight of the plated ...

  9. American Liberty high relief gold coin - Wikipedia

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    The American Liberty high relief gold coin is a one-ounce gold bullion coin issued by the United States Mint since 2015. [1] This coin was the first 100 dollar gold coin to be issued by the US Mint. Description