Silver 9ct white gold 18ct white gold Palladium Platinum Blue-white Non-rhodium Non-rhodium Icy grey-white Icy grey-white
plated: pale plated: warm
yellow-white gunmetal grey (warm) Colour Rhodium plated: Rhodium plated: Icy, grey white Icy, grey-white The least The most Considerably Priced similarly The most expensive of the economically more expensive to 18ct white expensive precious metals. priced gold as it than 9ct gold gold, partly precious metal has just 9 parts due to the larger because it is not due to its out of 24 of pure quantity of pure mined for scarcity and gold. gold (18 out of specifically, but because it is so 24 parts) and is a by-product desirable. the pricey of platinum metals that mining.
Price (in a stable market) stable a (in Price makeup this alloy. 2.5-3 on Moh’s 9 parts out of 24 18ct white gold 4.75 on the 4-4.5 on the scale of pure gold which has a higher Moh’s scale of Moh’s scale of hardness, which is very soft but it amount of gold hardness making hardness, so less demonstrates is mixed with in it, making it it the toughest hardwearing that it is a fairly other alloys to potentially of the precious than its sibling soft metal. It will try and toughen softer than 9ct metals. It will Palladium, but dent and bend it up a bit. but it is mixed wear over time, still harder than
Durability with wear. with harder developing a gold. Platinum alloys, so this patina which is will develop a balances out the rather patina over difference in appealing. time. wear. Silver is 92.5% When white gold is rhodium plated, Both palladium and platinum are pure but the it is often first plated with nickel. almost completely pure (95%) and
remaining 7.5% Once the rhodium wears away, the so are considered hypoallergenic. can be made up nickel is exposed which may cause Palladium is mixed with Ruthenium
genic? from copper, some wearers some issues. 24ct and Gallium, which make up the germanium, zinc gold is pure and therefore remaining 4.5%. Platinum is 95% or platinum. hypoallergenic but 9ct and 18ct are pure with 4.5% iridium. Traces of nickel alloyed with a range of other metals Hypoaller can be found in some people may have reactions to. some sterling silver.