White Gold Rings Vs Platinum Rings

By: Ted Crist

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If you want to buy wedding rings, engagement rings or just for your rings collection and you like white color, most likely you’ll choice white gold rings or platinum rings for your options. There are plus minus sides of each material, here are some of them.

Purity

White is not a natural color of gold. To create white gold rings, you must mix gold with white materials, such as silver, nickel or palladium. 75% gold + 25% white materials = 18K white gold rings, while 58, 5% gold + 41, 5% white materials = 14K white gold rings. After that, white gold rings usually coated with rhodium to enhance its white color.

Platinum rings purity are more than 90% (approximately 95%). Platinum rings also heavier and denser metal than white gold rings. White is a natural color of platinum and doesn’t need rhodium coating to make platinum rings looks white.

Durability

Platinum rings are more durable and more scratch resistance than white gold rings. Platinum rings also don’t need to replated with rhodium, which mean less maintenance.

Price

Platinum rings are more pure, more rare and more difficult to manufactured, which in result will make platinum rings more expensive than white gold rings.

Conclusion

If you buy rings just for your collection I think it’s enough if you buy white gold rings. If you buy white gold rings, you can have approximately two white gold rings than one platinum ring with same price, which means you will have more ring collections and you won’t get easily bored. But if price is not a problem for you, then platinum rings is your selection.

You may consider buying platinum rings for your wedding rings, because you’ll wear it forever. But if you can’t afford it or you think it’s not necessary to buy platinum rings, for example, you won’t wear your wedding rings at work or on your daily life, you can buy white gold rings as your wedding rings or engagement rings. If white gold rings begin to dull, you only need to spend some time and a little cost to replated white gold rings with rhodium, and your white gold ring will shine again. Ask your jewelry stores near you to do that.

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Some Fact about White Gold Ring

By: Ted Crist

White Gold Rings

White gold ring has been increasing in popularity for wedding or engagement ring because it looks fresher, with an affordable price.

White gold ring can be used for men and women. Some men said that they prefer to wear white gold ring than yellow gold ring because it looks more neutral and not too flashy, so they do not mind to use them in daily activities.

Before you buy white gold ring, it’s good to know some fact about it.

What is white gold ring?

White gold ring is a mixture of  gold with other materials, such as silver, nickel or palladium. The reason why gold have to be mixed with other materials is because “white” is not a natural color of gold, so it must be mixed with other materials to make it white. Besides that, pure gold (24K) is too soft, so it must be mixed with other materials that harder than gold. This means 14K gold ring is slightly harder than 18K gold ring, because 14K gold ring contains more percentage of harder metal than 18K gold ring.

White Gold Ring Quality and Rhodium Plating

Rhodium plating often used to enhance the white color of white gold ring. Anyway, best quality white gold ring does not require rhodium plating to make it white. Nickel can cause allergies in some people, so I suggest you to use white gold ring with a mixture of palladium. However, if you have sensitive skin, you can still use nickel containing white gold ring with a condition that the ring is coated with rhodium, because rhodium is a hypo-allergenic material.

Maintenance

After some period of constant use, the color of white gold ring can be dull, and the color changed to green or yellow in some parts. When this happens, you only need to bring it to the jeweler to replated / recoated with rhodium with a reasonable price. For everyday maintenance, you may use warm water (do not use boiling water), soft brush and mild soap (I recommend that you use detergent free soap) to clean your white gold ring.

whether you use white gold ring as a wedding / engagement ring or just for your jewelry collection, white gold ring is a wise choice, because it combines the beauty, affordable price and eternity (because you can always replated with rhodium )

About the Author :
Ted Crist is an avid writer, providing two minutes guide on diamonds, rings and jewelry. Feel free to publish, use or edit my article (for grammar corrections), but I would be very appreciate if you put link back to DiamondsRings99.com.

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