Last Updated on 19/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
Today, the festival of brother-sister love, Raksha Bandhan (Raksha Bandhan 2024), is being celebrated all over the country. On this day, the sister ties a rakhi on the brother’s wrist and the brother gives her some gift. If you are planning to give your sister a gold gift on Raksha Bandhan, then it is very important to identify whether the gold jewellery is real or fake at the shop. Many cases of sale of fake gold have also come to light and in such a situation, it becomes necessary to check it while buying it with your hard-earned money. Let us tell you some special ways...
The craze for gold in India is old, apart from jewellery, it is also adopted as an investment option. Be it a wedding or any festival or event, there is a sharp increase in the purchase of gold jewellery in the country. Now that it is the festival of Rakshabandhan, the trend of gifting gold to the sister is increasing on this occasion too. There are many ways to identify gold at a jewellery shop, but there are some of them using which you can quickly identify at the shop itself whether the gold jewellery you are buying is real or fake? The first of these is that while buying jewellery, definitely look for the hallmark on it.
To identify the purity of gold and whether it is real or fake, the first thing you have to keep in mind is whether the gold jewellery you are buying has a hallmark or not. Yes, this hallmark sign is proof of the purity of that gold. You can know all the details including the quality of the jewellery you are buying through the BIS Care App. For this, after downloading this app on your phone and opening it, you will have to enter the 6-digit hallmark number present on the jewellery and all the information will be in front of you instantly.
This was about digital identification of gold, now let’s look at an old method in which you can confirm the purity of the gold you are buying by using a magnet. The idea behind this is very simple, in fact all you have to do is bring the gold you are buying in contact with a magnet. If the gold sticks to the magnet, then it is not real, whereas if the gold does not stick to the magnet then the gold is real.
Now coming to the third way to identify gold, you can easily identify its purity with the help of vinegar used in the kitchen. For this, put a few drops of vinegar on the gold jewellery you are buying and observe it carefully for just a few minutes, if you see any change in the colour of the gold jewellery in your hand, then assume that the gold is not real. Whereas if the colour of the gold does not change, then in this case your gold is real.
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