Silver (disambiguation)
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Silver is a metal; see silver. The word silver also often refers to the distinctive color, silver (color).
Other senses include:
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[edit] Element
Compounds and alloys of the element silver:
- Silver sulphide
- Nickel silver
- Britannia silver, an alloy containing 95.84% silver
- Sterling silver, an alloy usually containing 92.5% silver
- Sheffield plate, a sandwich of copper between sheets of silver alloy
- Coin silver, an alloy usually containing 90% silver
Related uses:
- Colloidal silver, a colloid of silver particles in water
- household silver, dishware, cutlery and other household items made of silver
- Gelatin-silver process, a photographic process
- Silver medal, award given to the runner-up of contests
- Varak, silver coating used in food preparations (mainly cakes and Indian sweets)
[edit] Names
see also: List of people named Silver
Silver is a common surname. People with the name include:
- Abba Hillel Silver, Lithuanian-US rabbi
- Horace Silver
- Cheyenne Silver
- Joel Silver
- Terry Silver
- Warren Silver
- Johnny Silver
As first name:
[edit] Events
- Silver Age
- Silver jubilee
- Silver rush, the silver equivalent of a gold rush.
[edit] Places
- Silver Plume, Colorado
- Silver Grove, Kentucky
- Silver Brook Township, Minnesota
- Silver Township, Minnesota
- Silver Islet, Ontario
- Silver City, New Mexico
- The Silver Line of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
- The planned Silver Line of the Washington Metro
- The Jubilee Line of the London Underground, mapped in the color silver
[edit] Organisms
Plants:
Animals:
[edit] Uses in economics
[edit] Uses in arts and entertainment
[edit] Television and film
- Silver Spoons, a sitcom
- Silver (horse), The Lone Ranger's white stallion.
[edit] Music
An album or a single is said to have reached "Silver" status when it sells a certain number of copies. See Music recording sales certification for details.
- Silver, an album by Johnny Cash
- The Silver Apples, a band
- Silver (Indra Lesmana album), greatest hits album by Indonesian musician Indra Lesmana
- Silver (song), a song by The Pixies from their album Doolittle
- Silver (group), had one hit with "Wham Bam" during the 1970s.
- Maxwell's Silver Hammer a song by The Beatles
[edit] Literature
- The Silver Sequence trilogy of books
- Silver (novel), a 1988 novel by American author Hilma Wolitzer.
[edit] Games
- Pokémon Silver, a Game Boy video game
- Silver (game), a video game on PC and Dreamcast
- Silver (Buriki-One), also known as Silber, is a character in the SNK Fighting Games Buriki-One and The King of Fighters XI.
- Silver the Hedgehog, a video game character in Sonic the Hedgehog series of games.
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Silver goal, a method used in association football
- AEA Silver Dart, an early aircraft
- Operation Silver, a British intelligence operation