Colloidal silver is a solution of submicroscopic particles of pure silver suspended in water by an electric charge on each particle.

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Modern gold Olympic medals are plated with about six grams of gold, while the runners up medals are struck from pure silver.

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The current development of new alloys, notably one containing pure silver and some germanium, promises more flexible jewellery-making, and more resilient materials.

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Recently his firm began converting scrap silver, whether it is jewelry, flatware or old coins such as pre-1964 U.S. quarters into pure silver.

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One trend he has noticed is his customers want to convert silver objects into pure silver in an effort to make them easier to value.

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Noble has come up with a way to adhere pure silver to a basic textile, which allows the fabric to take on the chemical properties of silver.

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Kings and Emperors would start out with pure gold or silver coins.

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The time it takes to refine dore silver bars, which are a semi-pure alloy and usually created at the site of a mine, are somewhere in the middle of jewelry and electronics.

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