Here a few tools, techniques and tricks on recognizing real gold. Sadly, gold hallmarks are not 100% reliable, with unscrupulous people adding false ones especially recently. I've had a lot of experience and still, very rarely, I have been fooled so you do have to be careful and thorough.

There are many ways to test for gold purity, ranging from mass spectrography (you need a university in your pocket for that), refining (you need a furnace), various electronic testers (too expensive unless you’re a professional) or you can buy a few acid solutions and a touch stone from your local jewellers supply.

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Nowadays we know of several metals that have similar densities to gold, such as the heavier platinum-group metals. However, using these metals to produce fake gold is unprofitable due to their high cost.

There are two metals that are suitable, from both a density and economic perspective, for manufacturing fake gold - uranium and tungsten.

These metals aren't without their give-aways either. Different chemical and electro-magnetic properties exist. Uranium is of course radioactive. Tungsten is extremely brittle - the exact opposite of gold. Additionally, tungsten has the highest known melting point of any non-alloyed metal at 3422 degrees Celsius, making it difficult to work with. However, it appears that at least one high-temperature furnace is producing gilded tungsten products.

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