Showing posts with label karat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label karat. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

“Karat or Carat?”

The word Carat should be reserved for gem’s weight like “three carat ruby” and karat reserved as a measure of purity of gold. Long time ago, carob beans were used as a unit of weight, both words karat and carat grew from that root word.