Definition of silver

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Silver (n.) A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the noble metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7. Specific gravity 10.5..

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Plate :: Plate (n.) Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold..
Multiply :: Multiply (v. t.) To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy.
Proustite :: Proustite (n.) A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver..
Argental :: Argental (a.) Of or pertaining to silver; resembling, containing, or combined with, silver..
Fallfish :: Fallfish (n.) A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species..
Desilverize :: Desilverize (v. t.) To deprive, or free from, silver; to remove silver from..
Palladium :: Palladium (n.) A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so na
White :: White (superl.) Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary..
Alburn :: Alburn (n.) The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls..
Merk :: Merk (n.) An old Scotch silver coin; a mark or marc.
Ale Silver :: Ale silver () A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.
Eucairite :: Eucairite (n.) A metallic mineral, a selenide of copper and silver; -- so called by Berzelius on account of its being found soon after the discovery of the metal selenium..
Testone :: Testone (n.) A silver coin of Portugal, worth about sixpence sterling, or about eleven cents..
Silverize :: Silverize (v. t.) To cover with silver.
Franc :: Franc (a.) A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. It is equivalent to about nineteen cents, or ten pence, and is divided into 100 centimes..
Brocade :: Brocade (n.) Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched..
Argentry :: Argentry (n.) Silver plate or vessels.
Arborescence :: Arborescence (n.) The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver..
Foil :: Foil (n.) A thin leaf of sheet copper silvered and burnished, and afterwards coated with transparent colors mixed with isinglass; -- employed by jewelers to give color or brilliancy to pastes and inferior stones..
Ambrotype :: Ambrotype (n.) A picture taken on a plate of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass..
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