There are more then one type of plating techniques in making gold plated jewelry so to keep it simple in this article I will just talk about the method used to make our gold plated jewelry. We use only the finest 18 and 14 karat yellow gold and rhodium a cousin of platinum to create our gold plated jewelry. The process we use to plate our gold plated jewelry is called Electroplating, so anytime you see one of our items that say GP in the title then you know its gold plated has been done via the process of electroplating to ensure the max life of the jewelry. Below is some basic information on this unique process.

We use electrical currents to reduce cations of 18 and 14 karat gold or rhodium to from a solution which is used to coat our raw jewelry pieces. This process in electroplating our gold plated jewelry is called electro deposition. It is analogous to a galvanic cell acting in reverse. The part to be plated is called the cathode raw jewelry of the circuit. In this one unique technique, the anode is made of the metal to be plated. The components are then immersed into a solution called an electrolyte that has dissolved metal salts, and other ions to allow the flow of electricity. Rectifier gives a direct current to the anode, oxidizing the gold and or rhodium molecules which comprise it and allow them to dissolve in the solution.

The cathode, is the dissolved gold and or rhodium ions in the electrolyte is then reduced at the interface in-between the solution and the cathode. The speed at which the anode dissolves is equal to the rate at which the cathode is being plated, at the current flowing through the circuit. The Plating thickness is depends on how long the jewelers electrode-position is allowed to process.

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James