GOLD PLATING CONSUMER PURPOSES
GOLD PLATING has various uses. For
instance soft, pure gold plating is used in
the semi-conductor industry and GOLD PLATING
of silver is used in the manufacture of
jewellery.
GOLD PLATING
JEWELLERY
A great deal of the gold plating that is
done is performed on jewellery. A jeweller
may add gold plating to a portion of a piece
of jewellery to provide a secondary colour
to the design or may cover the entire
piece in gold, giving it the look of a solid
gold object. Like solid gold, gold plated
jewellery retains its gold colour
indefinitely and does not tarnish or rust.
Gold plated jewellery is not nearly as
valuable or costly as its solid gold
counterpart though the physical appearance
is much the same.
GOLD PLATING ELECTRONICS
Electronics manufacturers also use gold
plating for a very different purpose. One of
the unique properties of gold is its
excellent conductivity. For this reason,
gold plated electronics components are among
the most reliable and highest quality in the
industry. Computer semi-conductors sometimes
use gold plating, as do high-end audio
cables that transmit sound at extremely high
quality levels.
GOLD PLATING FOR
DECORATION
Gold plating is also used for its aesthetic
value, simply to embellish or decorate. For
thousands of years, artists and architects
have used gold plating to enhance their
work, whether adding gold leaf to a
painting, to the edges of pages in a book,
to the capital of a marble column or to the
cornice of a building. This use of gold
plating serves as a reminder that gold has
been considered sacred, valuable and even
magical by many cultures throughout history.
