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<p>[QUOTE="XrazerX, post: 4309364, member: 23758"]I thought the same thing. I don't know if anyone has used one of these liquid gold testing kits but it's stupid easy. You make a scratch on this blackboard-looking 2x2 piece of something they give you with the portion of the material you want to test, and add the 10k liquid to it. If it stays there, it's 10k or higher. If it gets dissolved, it's less than 10k gold, meaning not gold. Then you progress to the 14k liquid, same thing. If it stays, you use the 18k liquid, when it dissolves, you know it's the one beneath it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The face and housing dissolved at 18k, meaning it's 14k gold, and the chain dissolved at 14k, meaning it's 10k. I don't know how accurate it is, but I did have two real watches appraised at a jewelry store last month and she tested them in the same way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="XrazerX, post: 4309364, member: 23758"]I thought the same thing. I don't know if anyone has used one of these liquid gold testing kits but it's stupid easy. You make a scratch on this blackboard-looking 2x2 piece of something they give you with the portion of the material you want to test, and add the 10k liquid to it. If it stays there, it's 10k or higher. If it gets dissolved, it's less than 10k gold, meaning not gold. Then you progress to the 14k liquid, same thing. If it stays, you use the 18k liquid, when it dissolves, you know it's the one beneath it. The face and housing dissolved at 18k, meaning it's 14k gold, and the chain dissolved at 14k, meaning it's 10k. I don't know how accurate it is, but I did have two real watches appraised at a jewelry store last month and she tested them in the same way.[/QUOTE]
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