Carat

Gold so pure, it's like glass.

You know, when you are qualifying gold, you do it in what they call carats.

Carats.

Carat 14, carat 18, and so on and so forth.

The higher the carat, the purer the gold.

where they are found on the surface or more commonly dug up in mines today.

I did not know before starting this research that the carat, that's C-A-R-A-T, is the metric we use to measure the size of a diamond.

And it actually comes from a seed.

This is from Epstein, The Rise and Fall of Diamonds.

I do.

Well, it's actually, it's, it's C-A-R-A-T, though.

Like a diamond.

Yeah.

Yeah, discovered in 1905, the Kulinan diamond weighed about 3,106 carats.

Now, that's not the carat that you eat.

It's a different spelling, but same pronunciation, C-A-R-A-T-S.

And you tend to measure the value and weight of diamonds and gold in carats.

So that is to give you an idea about 0.62 of a kilogram, more than half a kilo.

Bullion.

Carat.

There it is from Gail.

Oh, what? Carat.

Gail comes through with the win.

Yay.