(noun.) a unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg.
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双语例句
One often speaks of a ring as being 14-carat gold, or of 22- or 18-carat watch cases or jewelry, but do all of us know just what we mean by 14, 18 or 22 carat? 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
How Much Gold has a 14-Carat Ring? 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Gold is divided into twenty-four parts--that is, pure gold is said to contain twenty-four carats--the carat being just a measurement term. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The average weight of the native Burmese ruby is about one-eighth of a carat. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
A ring or watch case marked 14K or 18K means that fourteen or eighteen parts of it are pure gold, the balance of the twenty-four carats being some sort of alloy, copper being generally used. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The Orloff diamond, belonging to the Emperor of Russia, weighs 195 carats; the Pitt diamond, among the French crown jewels, 136-1/2. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
One of the largest diamonds known (weight 367 carats) was found in Borneo about a century ago, and belongs to the Rajah of Mattan. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Some of the South African diamonds are also very large, one being found in 1893 weighing 971 carats, or nearly half a pound. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
More recently a much larger one has been found, weighing 3,034 carats. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
This has been cut into eleven pieces, the largest, a drop brilliant, weighing 516-1/2 carats. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Standard gold, or the alloy used for the gold coinage of Britain, consists of twenty-two parts of gold and two of copper (being thus twenty-two carats fine). 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Rubies have been thus produced weighing twelve to fifteen carats when cut. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
It weighed originally nearly 800 carats, but by subsequent recuttings has been reduced to 103-3/4 carats. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Gold is divided into twenty-four parts--that is, pure gold is said to contain twenty-four carats--the carat being just a measurement term. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The fineness of gold is estimated by carats, pure gold being twenty-four carats fine. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The largest Brazilian diamond weighed 254-1/2 carats and was cut to a brilliant of 125. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Articles of jewelry in gold are made of every degree of fineness up to eighteen carats, _i. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
This, called the Star of South Africa, has been placed in King George’s scepter, and another, of 309-3/16 carats, in his crown. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.