Recently, the recession of gold industry led many collectors of gold products gradually turned their attention to tungsten gold-plated products, which has a great cost performance. The tungsten gold-plated products, such as tungsten gold-plated commemorative coins, tungsten gold-plated bars, tungsten gold-plated blocks, tungsten gold-plated crafts etc.,  have a high circulation rate and become more and more popular among people. So, it gives an opportunity to many illegals, who use the tungsten gold-plated products as gold products to cheat the customers and to obtain the ill-gotten gains. Therefore, we must learn to identify the tungsten gold-plated products and gold products, not only to protect our own interests but also to better meet our collection hobbies.

 

1, Identify from the hardness: since the similar density between gold and tungsten gold-plated, which can be called almost the same, the differences between them are difficult to be determined unless by the professionals. But we can easily to distinguish the two from the hardness. Because the hardness of gold is only 2.5Mohs, but the hardness of tungsten can reach 8 ~ 9Mohs, which are only second to the diamonds, so for the pure gold products, its surface will have a fingernail print if we only use a little harder force pinch on it.

 

2, Identify from the engraved tag: in general, the formal gold products are engraved with its exclusive brand names, however the gold-plated products generally do not been engraved,  but few will be engraved with the words "GK" that means gold-plated.

 

3, Using the professional testing equipment, such as X-ray fluorescence gold analyzer, this method is more reliable. The downside is that the interior of the article will be difficult to detect, so it still needs to go to a professional accrediting bodies to detect.

 

Because of its good characteristics, therefore tungsten gold-plated products can be a good alternation to expensive gold products and become the new darling of the people's favorites. Despite this, it is no doubt that tungsten gold-plated products are not the tools for illegals to achieving their illegal purposes. Tungsten gold-plated products can only be used to meet the people’s the visual enjoy and become the collections of collectors.