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What percentage of 18 carat gold is in fact pure gold?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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If the other alloying metal is copper (or metals with densities close to that of copper's 8,6 such as nickel or silver which are the most common) then around half the volume is gold the other half is alloying metal.

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Karat means the amount of pure gold and 18k means the percentage of gold is 75%.

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