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By 2034 silver prices to hit $750 per ounce, if the global economy keeps ticking on & America slides into decline as the USD becomes nearly worthless. Just like gasoline and diesel will be around for the next 300 years, the USD will become weaker, but will still be around because of market entrenchment and market lock-in, or market inertia, such that so much capital and value tied in USD with many billionaires and connected evil people in America with a vested interest in stabilizing the dollar along with strange acts from the Federal Reserve and other strange insitutiitions and perverted or corrupt government.
There is a bunch of reasons that Gold prices are soaring, that Crypto currencies like BTC or bitcoin are trending and popular worldwide, namely because crypto enables people to buy drugs, organs, people, slaves, children, weapons, missiles, and many other illegal black and grey market items online, using the TOR browser and the Onion, with sites like future iterations of Silk Road enabling people to buy LSD, meth, heroin, stinger missiles and command modules, kidneys with the right blood type, or many other strange or illegal things using bitcoin as payment.
Silver tarnishes by interacting with sulfur pollution or SOX in air to form a dark or black silver sulfide patina which can be removed with polishing or chemicals that eat the silver sulfide layer away leaving a bright grey silver appearance that's bright white or very bright when compared to less bright similar grey colored polished metals.
As a softer metal, silver has a Mohs harness of 2.5, similar to soft gold or fingernails, or a range of 75-200 HV depending on the alloy of silver with other metals, often copper. Silver can be found as nodules of crystals in its pure state in nature in what is known as a native silver, but is often found alloyed with gold, copper, lead, and zinc, and produced as a byproduct of refining these other metals from natural mineral sources like argentite or chlorargyrite.
While silver is prized for investment, buffering and reserve currency or hedging metals for economy downturn high liquidity insurance backup money, its ability to conduct thermal energy as a heatsink, or to conduct electrical current with the highest known conductivity, its also the most reflective when polished into a mirror finish of all other known metals with a near white appearance due to its ability to reflect most visible frequency photons.
Silver dimes & quarters & silver ounce rounds & silver bars are popular metals to collect in markets like the USA where the local fiat currency or USD been precipitously declining in value for a long time. Silver pieces have high liquidity and can be converted easily from or back to local fiat currencies around the world. Where density important, gold used since a small amount of gold has the same value as a much larger amount of silver. Consider the value of one ounce of gold or one gram of gold to the same amount of silver for a comparison. No numbers are given here since these exchange values fluctuate rapidly and vary considerably over time due to market forces and other global economy and national security and economy variables vastly outside the scope of this analysis.
A silver wire only 1 atom wide can be drawn due to the extreme ductility of silver metal, similar in this respect with gold which can be pounded to atom thick foil or gold foils of atom level thickness. A molecular thin layer of pure silver applied to polished clear glass forms a mirror of exceptional optical properties, while a polished silver coating on polished aluminum makes exceptional first surface mirrors, though rhodium, platinum or palladium are preferred for first surface mirror due to their ability to resit oxidizing or corroding more effectively than silver which readily reacts with sulfur in their to form black silver sulfide patina or tarnish.
Valued as a precious metal since antiquity, silver utilized in many types of coins or bullion, in ways similar to that of gold coins. Gold more abundant as a native metal, though silver ore much more abundant. Silver purity defined as per-mille such that 94% silver alloy called 0.940 fine. The enduring role of silver in most human cultures been a feature of human societies since antiquity.
Today we find that silver finds use as an invent medium as silver coins or silver bullion. When used in water filtering the silver kills pathogenic bacterial, fungi and parasites because of its cool single outer orbital or valence shell electron, of 47 total shell electrons, over a saturated D orbital of electrons in the next lowest orbital shell.
When made into cutlery silver alloys are known as silverware. Silver used as a catalyst in chemical reactions for chemical engineering or in manufacturing drugs or prescription substances used to treat common diseases and disorders in medicine and physiology.
Silver tarnishes by interacting with sulfur pollution or SOX in air to form a dark or black silver sulfide patina which can be removed with polishing or chemicals that eat the silver sulfide layer away leaving a bright grey silver appearance that's bright white or very bright when compared to less bright similar grey colored polished metals.
As a softer metal, silver has a Mohs harness of 2.5, similar to soft gold or fingernails, or a range of 75-200 HV depending on the alloy of silver with other metals, often copper. Silver can be found as nodules of crystals in its pure state in nature in what is known as a native silver, but is often found alloyed with gold, copper, lead, and zinc, and produced as a byproduct of refining these other metals from natural mineral sources like argentite or chlorargyrite.
While silver is prized for investment, buffering and reserve currency or hedging metals for economy downturn high liquidity insurance backup money, its ability to conduct thermal energy as a heatsink, or to conduct electrical current with the highest known conductivity, its also the most reflective when polished into a mirror finish of all other known metals with a near white appearance due to its ability to reflect most visible frequency photons.
Silver dimes & quarters & silver ounce rounds & silver bars are popular metals to collect in markets like the USA where the local fiat currency or USD been precipitously declining in value for a long time. Silver pieces have high liquidity and can be converted easily from or back to local fiat currencies around the world. Where density important, gold used since a small amount of gold has the same value as a much larger amount of silver. Consider the value of one ounce of gold or one gram of gold to the same amount of silver for a comparison. No numbers are given here since these exchange values fluctuate rapidly and vary considerably over time due to market forces and other global economy and national security and economy variables vastly outside the scope of this analysis.
A silver wire only 1 atom wide can be drawn due to the extreme ductility of silver metal, similar in this respect with gold which can be pounded to atom thick foil or gold foils of atom level thickness. A molecular thin layer of pure silver applied to polished clear glass forms a mirror of exceptional optical properties, while a polished silver coating on polished aluminum makes exceptional first surface mirrors, though rhodium, platinum or palladium are preferred for first surface mirror due to their ability to resit oxidizing or corroding more effectively than silver which readily reacts with sulfur in their to form black silver sulfide patina or tarnish.
Valued as a precious metal since antiquity, silver utilized in many types of coins or bullion, in ways similar to that of gold coins. Gold more abundant as a native metal, though silver ore much more abundant. Silver purity defined as per-mille such that 94% silver alloy called 0.940 fine. The enduring role of silver in most human cultures been a feature of human societies since antiquity.
Today we find that silver finds use as an invent medium as silver coins or silver bullion. When used in water filtering the silver kills pathogenic bacterial, fungi and parasites because of its cool single outer orbital or valence shell electron, of 47 total shell electrons, over a saturated D orbital of electrons in the next lowest orbital shell.
When made into cutlery silver alloys are known as silverware. Silver used as a catalyst in chemical reactions for chemical engineering or in manufacturing drugs or prescription substances used to treat common diseases and disorders in medicine and physiology.
Silver was used and still used in film photography. Due to the oligodynanic effect silver added to many bandages, wound dressings, catheters and medical instruments, as dilute solutions of silver nitrate or molecular silver nano-particles or as an electroplated layer of silver on other base metals, to clean, or disinfect or act as a microbiocide to kill pathogenic bacteria or bacterial pathogens.
When used as a reflective surface, silver has a brilliant white metallic luster able to be polished to a high level of reflectivity, such much that silver is a color name. When a thin layer of sulfur blocking clear polymer or protective coating applied to a silver mirror surface it performs better than highly polished aluminum at wavelengths above 450 nm.
When used as a reflective surface, silver has a brilliant white metallic luster able to be polished to a high level of reflectivity, such much that silver is a color name. When a thin layer of sulfur blocking clear polymer or protective coating applied to a silver mirror surface it performs better than highly polished aluminum at wavelengths above 450 nm.
The singe free valence electron of silver gives it exceptional electrical conductivity, common with gold and copper in group 11 element. Diamond and superfluid helium-4 have better thermal conductivity, but silver has the best electrical conductivity when compared with aluminum, copper and gold, though uniquely has the lowest contact resistance of all known metals. Silver wires are rare because of the high cost of silver, though often find applications in radio circuits of the VHF and higher frequencies where the silver plating allows the skin surface electrons to travel with less resistance, since electrons moving in such circuits tend to follow the outside of the conductor not its core. More than 13 thousand tons of silver used for uranium enrichment as the wires of electromagnets in cauldrons during World War II in the USA, to make materials for atomic bombs and fuel for nuclear reactors or nuclear propulsion in large military vehicles like nuclear aircraft carriers or nuclear submarines.
Silver tarnish made of black silver sulfide because of reactions with sulfur in the air, not that of oxygen. Silver will not even react to form an oxide with oxygen even if heated red hot in air. When submerged in salt water for a long time silver reacts with chloride ions to form silver chloride a type of tarnish of a pale yellow color that transitions to purplish appearance on exposure to light. The age of a silver artifact can be determined by the precipitation of copper out of alloys of copper and silver used in ancient silver.
Silver tarnish made of black silver sulfide because of reactions with sulfur in the air, not that of oxygen. Silver will not even react to form an oxide with oxygen even if heated red hot in air. When submerged in salt water for a long time silver reacts with chloride ions to form silver chloride a type of tarnish of a pale yellow color that transitions to purplish appearance on exposure to light. The age of a silver artifact can be determined by the precipitation of copper out of alloys of copper and silver used in ancient silver.
In film photography the silver micro grains in the film are bleached by potassium bromide to form silver bromide which can be redeveloped to improve intensity of the image or fixed with thiosulfate. To electroplate other metals like copper with silver, silver cyanide solutions are used.
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