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"EternaGold is a premium brand of 14K gold sold on-air and on-line by QVC. It has different properties than "regular" 14K gold. It is more durable, scratch resistant and dent resistant." That is the stock answer from QVC. My own experiences with it have shown that not to be the case.

After attempting to scrap a broken EternaGold necklace I was amazed to discover that my scrap person wanted nothing to do with it. He demonstrated to me that it fails the magnet test, (the first test to determine if a gold looking object is in fact gold; traditional 14K gold is non-magnetic.) It did, however, pass the acid test so he offered to take it to his smelter to determine what it is actually composed of. One week later he called back to inform me that while there is some gold content in EternaGold it is primarily copper and tin and the gold content of that necklace was nowhere near the 58.5% that would justify the 14K mark it bears.

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