The temperature has been so relentlessly hot this week that the government imposed a four-day mandatory holiday beginning Thursday and urged residents to stay out of the sun. At its most brutal, the so-called feels-like temperature has hit a staggering 159 degrees Fahrenheit, according to The Weather Channel.
12K Red gold: 50% gold and 50% copper. Up to 15% zinc can be added to copper-rich alloys to change their color to reddish yellow or dark yellow. During ancient times, due to impurities in the smelting process, gold frequently turned a reddish color.
Colored gold alloys. When two metals are dissolved in each other (as is the case with alloys), the color is often a mixture of the two. For example, copper dissolved in gold changes the color from a yellow-gold to a red-gold.Silver dissolved in gold creates a green-gold color.White gold contains palladium and silver. The color of gold jewelry can be attributed to the addition of different amounts of several metals (such as copper, silver, zinc, and so on).he addition of aluminum to gold creates a brittle purple gold. Purple gold used in a pin, and a purple gold inlay within a yellow gold ring. When indium or gallium is added to gold, a blue color can result. The cause of color in these intermetallics is different than that of yellow gold.