If you are unfamiliar with FIRST robotics, you should get yourself familiarized. The FIRST Robotics Competition (or FRC for short) is an international robotics competition where teams ranging from twenty to one hundred students build game-playing, 120-pound robots in just six weeks to compete in tournaments all across the globe. If you are a freshman through senior in high school, you are eligible to join.
âCaratâ is a term used for the denoting the weight of gemstones. âKaratâ is a term that describes the purity level of gold. Karats are in a base 24 system, which is a fancy way of saying tkae the karats on your jewelry and divide it by 24 to get the percentage of pure gold. 24 karat (24k) is pure, 100% gold.
Pure 24k gold is normally too soft for use in jewelry, so jewelers mix gold with another metal like nickel or silver to harden it, creating gold alloys of various purities: 10 karat gold is 41.7% pure gold; 12 karat gold is 50% pure gold; 14 karat gold is 58.3% pure gold and is ideal for jewelry because of its durability and affordability; 18 karat gold is 75% pure gold and is preferred in jewelry for its beauty and durability; and again, 24 karat is 100% pure gold and is therefore too soft ...