silver

Examples of silver in the following topics:

• Silver

  • Dilute silver nitrate solutions and other silver compounds are used as disinfectants and microbiocides.
  • Silver sulfide also forms silver whiskers when silver electrical contacts are used in an atmosphere rich in hydrogen sulfide.
  • Silver chloride (AgCl) is precipitated from solutions of silver nitrate in the presence of chloride ions.
  • Other dangerously explosive silver compounds are silver azide (AgN3), formed by reaction of silver nitrate with sodium azide (NaN3), and silver acetylide, formed when silver reacts with acetylene gas.
  • Silver cyanide solutions are used in electroplating of silver.

• The Economy and the Silver Solution

  • Proponents of "free silver" believed that the United States economy should be based on silver instead of gold.
  • Supporters of Free Silver were called "Silverites".
  • Everyone agreed that free silver would raise prices.
  • Free silver advocates wanted the mints to accept silver on the same principle, so that anyone would be able to deposit silver bullion at a Mint and in return receive nearly its weight in silver dollars and other currency.
  • The law required the Treasury to buy the silver with a special issue of Treasury Notes that could be redeemed for either silver or gold.

• Silverties Versus Goldbugs

  • This angered the proponents of monetary silver, known as the silverites.
  • A faction of Republicans from western silver mining regions known as the Silver Republicans endorsed Bryan.
  • Silverites belonged to a number of political parties, including the Silver Party, Populist Party, Democratic Party, and the Silver Republican Party.
  • The Silverites advocated free coinage of silver.
  • Many Silverites were from the West, where silver was mined.

• Inadequate Currency

  • The Coinage Act of 1873 eliminated the standard silver dollar.
  • They called for the return to pre-1873 laws, which would require the Mint to take all the silver offered it and return it, struck into silver dollars.
  • The profit, or seignorage, from monetizing the silver was to be used to purchase more silver bullion.
  • The silver would be struck into dollar coins, to be circulated or else stored and used as backing for silver certificates.
  • Implementation of the Bland-Allison Act did not end calls for free silver.

• Metalwork of the Inca

  • The Inca were well-known for their use of gold, silver, copper, bronze, and other metals for tools, weapons, and decorative ornaments.
  • The Inca were well known for their use of gold, silver, copper, bronze, and other metals.
  • Gold and silver were used for ornaments and decorations and reserved for the highest classes of Inca society, including priests, lords, and the Sapa Inca, or emperor.
  • Headdresses, crowns, ceremonial knives, cups, and ceremonial clothing were often inlaid with gold or silver.
  • Discuss the Incan use of copper, bronze, silver, gold, and other metals.

• Economic Conditions

  • The pragmatic portion of the Populist platform focused on issues of land, railroads, and money, including the unlimited coinage of silver.
  • This angered the proponents of monetary silver, known as the silverites.
  • Free silver advocates wanted the mints to accept silver on the same principle, so that anyone would be able to deposit silver bullion at a Mint and in return receive nearly its weight in silver dollars and other currency.
  • It was the currency question, however, pitting advocates of silver against those who favored gold, that soon overshadowed all other issues.
  • Agrarian spokesmen in the West and South demanded a return to the unlimited coinage of silver.

• History of Photography

  • He used paper or white leather treated with silver nitrate.
  • Niépce had previously experimented with paper coated with silver chloride.
  • More interested in silver-based processes than Niépce had been, Daguerre experimented with photographing camera images directly onto a silver-surfaced plate that had been fumed with iodine vapor, which reacted with the silver to form a coating of silver iodide.
  • A strong hot solution of common salt served to stabilize or fix the image by removing the remaining silver iodide.
  • Paper with a coating of silver iodide was exposed in the camera and developed into a translucent negative image.

• Mycenaean Metallurgy

  • A variety of gold and silver drinking cups have also been found in these grave shafts.
  • A silver rhyton called the Silver Siege Rhyton was likely used for ritual libations.
  • The Silver Siege Rhyton is unique for its depiction of a siege.
  • The rhyton consists primarily of silver with gold-leaf accents.
  • Bronze with gold, silver, and niello inlay. c. 16th century BCE.

• The Economy Under the Ming Dynasty

  • Minor coins were minted in base metals, but trade mostly occurred using silver ingots.
  • The problem was met through smuggled, then legal, importation of Japanese silver (mostly through the Portuguese and Dutch) and Spanish silver from Potosí carried on the Manila galleons.
  • Provincial taxes were required to be paid in silver in 1465; the salt tax, in 1475; and corvée exemptions, in 1485.
  • The dramatic spike in silver's value in China made payment of taxes nearly impossible for most provinces.
  • Excessive luxury and decadence marked the late Ming period, spurred by the enormous state bullion of incoming silver and by private transactions involving silver.

• Fall of the Ming Dynasty

  • Meanwhile, Philip IV of Spain (r. 1621–1665) began cracking down on illegal smuggling of silver from Mexico and Peru across the Pacific towards China, in favor of shipping American-mined silver directly from Spain to Manila.
  • However, the greatest stunt to the flow of silver came from the Americas, while Japanese silver still came into China in limited amounts.
  • These events occurring at roughly the same time caused a dramatic spike in the value of silver and made paying taxes nearly impossible for most provinces.
  • People began hoarding precious silver as there was progressively less of it, forcing the ratio of the value of copper to silver into a steep decline.
  • For peasants this was an economic disaster, since they paid taxes in silver while conducting local trade and selling their crops with copper coins.