Total carat weight on the other hand is used to mean the sum of the individual carat weights of all diamonds in a piece of jewelry.
What does total carat weight mean for earrings.
Each earring would be about a half carat 0 50 equaling one total carat weight.
For instance if a pair of diamond studded earrings has a total carat weight of 50 carat then each earring in this pair would have an individual carat weight of 25 carat.
Of course there are other types of earrings as.
100 0 02 carats 1 2 00 carats.
A diamond s total carat weight is determined by the minimum weight of all the diamonds in a single piece of jewelry.
Here s a simple equation that shows this.
The total carat weight of a 100 small diamonds aka melees each weighing two points 0 02 carats is the same as the weight of a single 2 carat diamond.
What does total carat weight mean.
This means that each earring has a carat weight of between 0 14 0 17 with a combined carat total weight of 1 3 or between 0 29ct 0 34ct.
To compare that a one carat diamond is 6 4mm.
A parcel of melee diamonds left versus a single 2 carat diamond right.
Above is a pair of our lab grown diamond studs at 1 3 ctw.
That is 1 5th of an inch.
Carat weight is used to refer to the weight of a single diamond.