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Throughout history, silver bullion has served
mankind as a primary monetary metal. It is
durable, divisible, convenient, has utility value,
and cannot be created by fiat.
The jewellery perceptions worldwide have been
under paradigm shift. The European women prefer
silver integration for selected
crystals jewellery unlike its fellow monetary
metal—gold—silver is most commonly used today as
an industrial commodity. Industrial demand for
silver has grown consistently for the past three
decades because of silver's many unique
properties, including its strength, malleability,
and ductility...its unparalleled electrical and
thermal conductivity...its sensitivity to and high
reflectance of light...and its ability to endure
extreme temperature ranges.
In addition to its jewellery usage it has immense industrial uses and qualities.
Silver is also used in numerous health care
products because of the unique antibacterial
characteristics that it possesses. The "Silver
Bullet" is used by hospitals to prevent bacterial
infections in burn victims. Silver is increasingly
being tapped for its microbiological qualities. |
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Silver is a
precious metal with chemical symbol Ag (Latin:
argentums) and atomic number 47. A soft white
lustrous transition metal, it has the highest
electrical and thermal conductivity for a metal.
Silver has been known since antiquity. It has long
been valued as a precious metal and used in
currency, ornaments and jewellery, as well as
utensils (hence the term
silverware).
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