Does anyone here know what "white gold" is, that is used in making 
jewellery? Is it actually an alloy of gold, presumably with a lot of 
some other metal, or is it something else altogether? 
  
It looks more or less like silver. 
  
Another metal that looks similar is tungsten. I was in a jewellery 
store yesterday (a friend's birthday is approaching), and noticed some 
rings that were marked "tungsten". I asked, and was told that they 
really were made of this metal, and were good because it is so hard 
that it is almost impossible to scratch or damage - not to mention 
melt. I tried one on, liked it, and was tempted to buy it. But then I 
remembered that, many years ago, I was wearing a silver ring when my 
finger was bitten by an insect and became swollen. The ring was so 
tight that I was afraid that the blood circulation to the finger would 
be interrupted, so I ended up removing the ring by cutting through it 
with a file. The ring was ruined, of course, but my finger recovered. 
But suppose the ring had been of tungsten. Nothing less than a diamond 
saw would have cut through it, and I don't usually have one of those in 
the house. Even at a hospital, the ring might have been impossible to 
remove, and I'd have lost the finger. 
  
So I didn't buy the tungsten ring. 
  
                             dow 
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