Bravo: Brit Eady's 10-Carat Wedding Ring Will Make Your Jaw Drop: "I'm That Girl" (PICS)
Brit Eady's 10-Carat Wedding Ring Will Make Your Jaw Drop: "I'm That Girl" (PICS)
The carat (ct) is a unit of mass equal to 200 mg (0.00705 oz; 0.00643 ozt), which is used for measuring gemstones and pearls. The current definition, sometimes known as the metric carat, was adopted in 1907 at the Fourth General Conference on Weights and Measures, [1][2] and soon afterwards in many countries around the world.
How much is a carat? If carat is serving as a variant spelling of karat, then it is measuring the fineness, rather than the weight, of gold; each carat is equal to 1/24 part of pure gold. If carat is being used in reference to precious stones, it is a unit of weight equal to 200 milligrams.
Carat denotes the weight of a diamond, not the size. A diamond may have a higher carat weight without appearing larger; and two diamonds of the same carat weight can vary in size if one is cut deeper than the other.
Precious jewels are measured in carats instead of ounces or grams. If your sister gets a three- carat diamond ring, she's getting a ring that weighs 600mg, which is big enough to be called "a rock." A variant of carat is karat.
Bravo: Garcelle Beauvais' Engagement Ring From Mike Nilon Is a Dazzling 3-Carat Diamond Sparkler (PICS)
According to the New York Post, which reported in 2001 on the then-couple's engagement, Garcelle's engagement ring from Nilon was "a 3-plus-carat, emerald-cut" diamond ring that she would later stack ...