Today, Raksha Bandhan (Raksha Bandhan 2024), the festival of love between brother and sister, is being celebrated all over the country. On this day, sister ties Rakhi on brother’s wrist and brother gives her some gift. If you are planning to gift gold to your sister on Rakshabandhan, then it is very important to identify whether the gold jewelery 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 methods…
Gold purchases increase on weddings and festivals
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 jewelery in the country. Now that it is the festival of Rakshabandhan and on this occasion also the trend of giving gold gifts to sister is increasing. There are many ways to identify gold at a jewelery shop, but there are some of them using which you can quickly identify at the shop itself whether the gold jewelery you are buying is real or fake. The first thing is that while buying jewellery, definitely check the hallmark on it.
Use of BIS Care app
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 Jewelery you are buying has a Hallmark on it or not. Yes, this hallmark sign is a proof of the purity of that gold. You can know all the details including the quality of the jewelery you are purchasing through 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 jewelery and all the information will be available to you instantly.
Magnet can also be used to identify real or fake
We have talked about the digital identification of gold, now let us look at an old method, in which you can use a magnet to confirm the purity of the gold you are buying. Its principle is very simple, actually 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 is not stuck to the magnet when applied to it, then the gold is real.
Can be identified easily through vinegar also
Now coming to the third method of identifying 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 jewelery you are buying and observe it carefully for just a few minutes, if you see any change in the color of the gold jewelery in your hand, So suppose that gold is not real. Whereas if the color of the gold does not change, then in this case your gold is real.