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Uses Silver and its alloys and compounds have numerous applications. As a precious metal, silver is used in jewelry. Also, one of its alloys, sterling silver, containing 92.5 weight % silver and 7.5 weight % copper, is a jewelry item and is used in tableware and decorative pieces. The metal and its copper alloys are used in coins. Silver-copper brazing alloys and solders have many applications. They are used in automotive radiators, heat exchangers, electrical contacts, steam tubes, coins, and musical instruments.

Some other uses of silver metal include its applications as electrodes, catalysts, mirrors, and dental amalgam. Silver is used as a catalyst in oxidation-reductions involving conversions of alcohol to aldehydes, ethylene to ethylene oxide, and ethylene glycol to glyoxal.

Uses For coinage, most frequently alloyed with copper or gold; for manufacture of tableware, mirrors, jewelry, ornaments; for electroplating; for making vessels and apparatus used in manufacture of medicinal chemicals, in processing foods and beverages, in handling organic acids; as catalyst in hydrogenation and oxidation processes; as ingredient of dental alloys. Has been used for purification of drinking water because of toxicity to bacteria and lower forms of life. Some salts used in photography.

Uses This malleable white metal is found as argentite (Ag2S) and horn silver (AgCl) or in lead and copper ore. Copper plates coated with a thin layer of elemental silver and fumed with iodine were used by Niépce and Daguerre. Aside from the heliograph and physautotype, silver halide compounds were the basis of all photographic processes used in the camera and most of the printing processes during the 19th century.

Uses Silver has a multitude of uses and practical applications both in its elemental metallic formand as a part of its many compounds. Its excellent electrical conductivity makes it ideal for usein electronic products, such a computer components and high-quality electronic equipment.It would be an ideal metal for forming the wiring in homes and transmission lines, if it weremore abundant and less expensive.

Metallic silver has been used for centuries as a coinage metal in many countries. Theamount of silver now used to make coins in the United States has been reduced drastically byalloying other metals such as copper, zinc, and nickel with silver.

Silver is used as a catalyst to speed up chemical reactions, in water purification, and inspecial high-performance batteries (cells). Its high reflectivity makes it ideal as a reflectivecoating for mirrors.

Several of its compounds were not only useful but even essential for the predigital photographicindustry. Several of the silver salts, such as silver nitrate, silver bromide, and silverchloride, are sensitive to light and, thus, when mixed with a gel-type coating on photographicfilm or paper, can be used to form light images. Most of the silver used in the United Statesis used in photography.

Photochromic (transition) eyeglasses that darken as they are exposed to sunlight have asmall amount of silver chloride imbedded in the glass that forms a thin layer of metallic silverthat darkens the lens when struck by sunlight. This photosensitive chemical activity is thenreversed when the eyeglasses are removed from the light. This chemical reversal results from asmall amount of copper ions placed in the glass. This reaction is repeated each time the lensesare exposed to sunlight.

Uses Silver is a precious metal, used in jewelryand ornaments Other applications includeits use in photography, electroplating, dentalalloys, high-capacity batteries, printed circuits,coins, and mirrors.