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What is a carat?

What is a carat? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A unit of weight for precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 200 milligrams.
  2. Formerly, any of several units of weight, varying from 189 to 212 mg, the weight of a carob seed.
  3. A measure of the purity of gold, pure gold being 24 carats.
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Her wedding ring was a wide one, but it was only nine carat, and her mother told her she would never have a day's good luck with such a ring.
She felt him slide a ring onto her finger, and when she looked down, there was a pear-shaped, full carat gold ring on her finger.
Dissolve in the drink half a dram each of darnel, fumitory, opium and henbane and half a carat of myrobalan.
Such a stone would be significantly larger than the 105 carat Koh-i-Noor diamond, now part of the British crown jewels.
Whoever guesses the correct code will win the necklace, which is 18 carat white gold and set with a 0.3-carat diamond.
He hand picks the diamonds himself for the engagement rings and sets them in platinum rather than 18 carat gold.

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