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Uses
Silver coating is used on
some circuit board parts.
MAKING CLOUDS

Rain is crucial to our Earth, especially for growing Silver coin
healthy crops. Where there are no clouds, scientists
can form tiny water droplets that cling to silver
iodide powder, forming artificial rain clouds.

1. Aircraft releases Circuit board
silver iodide powder. 2. Ice and water droplets Soft silver is
produce a cloud. easily pressed
into coins.

3. Rain falls when the
water droplets in a cloud
become heavy enough.

The polished surface
has a pale, metallic shine.

Antique silver spoon
Edible silver foil Pure silver Silver bracelet

moulded and cut
into varying shapes

These thin sheets
of silver called
“vark” are edible.

Silver nitrate is Photography plate
mixed with water to
clean cuts and scrapes.
Glass infused with silver
chloride turns brownish when
exposed to sunlight.
Silver
nitrate
Photochromatic glasses

An image forms
when silver bromide
darkens quickly on
exposure to light.

flattened silver foil to decorate food. Silver in some circuit boards. Silver nitrate (a
spoons and forks were the only pieces of compound of silver, nitrogen, and oxygen) is
cutlery that did not create a nasty metallic a mild disinfectant used in some anti-bacterial
flavour in the mouth in the days before the soaps. Silver forms light-sensitive compounds
invention of stainless steel. Silver conducts with chlorine (used in sunglasses) and bromine
electricity better than copper, and is used (used in old photography plates). 85

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