Pliny the Elder wrote in his Natural History about Chryse and Argyre, two legendary islands rich in gold and silver, located in the Indian Ocean. |
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In 2016 the Royal Mint launched a series of 10 Queen's Beasts bullion coins, one for each beast available in both gold and silver. |
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The Bank also issued silver tokens to alleviate the shortage of silver coins. |
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Other cultures in Asia Minor later materialised their currencies in the form of gold and silver coins. |
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In 2006 a hoard of 599 silver denarii, hidden in a locally made cooking pot, was found at Llanvaches by a metal detectorist. |
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Rather large chess board with pieces of silver and crystal and the board made of gold. |
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The paperbarks and floodgums that shroud us look eerie and ethereal in the silver light, and I find myself matching Jasper's step. |
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At Soho, he adopted the latest techniques, branching into silver plate, ormolu and other decorative arts. |
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Following a silver medal in the 1986 Commonwealth Games, he won the 110m hurdles silver at the 1988 Olympic Games behind Roger Kingdom. |
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Eric Delieb, who wrote a book on Boulton's silver, with a biographical sketch, suggests that the marriage celebrant, Rev. |
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She came to wide public attention in 2003 when she sang at Westminster Cathedral in honour of Pope John Paul II's silver jubilee. |
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Far away on the moon-ward horizon a luminous silver mist veiled the distant view. |
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But where the heart is concerned, a one-shot, silver bullet approach would be the ultimate disservice. |
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Some sceptics asserted the promoters were merely using silver from somewhere else, to ramp up the shares. |
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The main part of the shield displays a red crowned lion on a silver field, the arms of Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall. |
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Amongst the rich this part of a hawk's furniture is ornamented with embroidery, handsome silver aigrettes, tassels and other decorations. |
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In the early 3rd millennium BC, the metallurgy of copper and silver began to develop. |
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The Carolingians exercised controls over the silver coinage of the realm, controlling its composition and value. |
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In athletics, the Portuguese have won a number of gold, silver and bronze medals in the European, World and Olympic Games competitions. |
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In England hoards of Viking silver such as the Cuerdale Hoard and the Vale of York Hoard, offer good insight to this phenomenon. |
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Its coat is dark with silver rings on the back and sides with a silver belly, from which this seal gets its vernacular name. |
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His hair is tied back with a bit of silver galloon, and he is dressed with panache in a blue velvet jacket, white silk hose, buckled pumps. |
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China suffered 20,000 civilian deaths, and financially the loss amounted to over 69 million taels' worth of silver. |
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It consists of a roundish or ovoidal ball, apparently of rock-crystal, about an inch and a half in diameter, and protected by a silver mounting. |
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Old World folk customs have persisted for decades in North Dakota, with revival of techniques in weaving, silver crafting, and wood carving. |
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And the house wherein his Pagode or idol standeth, is covered with tiles of silver, and all the walls are gilded with gold. |
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He won the silver medal in the 25 kilometre open water at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome. |
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With her rouged cheeks, silver lipcoat and mascara she might have been any girl after an hour at her mother's dressing table. |
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Spain produced the most silver in his time, many of the mines having been started by Hannibal. |
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These coins continue an existing national practice of minting of silver and gold commemorative coins. |
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He says mercury is used for gilding copper, while antimony is found in silver mines and is used as an eyebrow cosmetic. |
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The possibility was considered that it was caused by an acute form of encephalomyelitis, which was first observed in captive bred silver foxes. |
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Its decided color gives the common names gray, white, black, silver and yellow birch to different species. |
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The leaves of the silver birch tree are used in the festival of St George, held in Novosej and other villages in Albania. |
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To protect the city against future fires, it was decided to plant silver birch trees all over the city. |
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The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear. |
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An indigenous currency of silver punched marked coins dating between 600 BCE and 400 BCE has been found at the site. |
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Iron, gold and silver were found in great quantities in the Western Carpathians. |
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After the Roman emperor Trajan's conquest of Dacia, he brought back to Rome over 165 tons of gold and 330 tons of silver. |
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She had been standing behind the curtain of coloured glass beads for at least half an hour now, waiting patiently with a silver lota of water. |
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The major outlet for US landings of yellow and silver eels is the EU market. |
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It held that a nation's wealth depended on its accumulation of gold and silver. |
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As he swept out of the room with a bellying sweep of his gown and a toss of his silver hair, his old heart was beating madly. |
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The coat of arms of his family was drawn with two purple goats on a field of silver. |
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Colouring is brown or green, with spots on the dorsal side, shading to silver ventrally. |
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The vents create sulfide deposits, which contain precious metals such as silver, gold, copper, manganese, cobalt, and zinc. |
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It is thought tin was mined here as early as the Bronze Age, and copper, lead, zinc and silver have all been mined in Cornwall. |
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It was a place where Phoenicians reportedly obtained different metals, particularly silver, during the reign of Solomon. |
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This metallic evidence agrees with the biblical memory of a western Mediterranean Tarshish that supplied Solomon with silver via Phoenicia. |
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Another version of the legend says that she stole the silver key to admit her lover, mistakenly opening the sluices in the dark. |
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The silver and blue wave across the centre of the shield represents the River Wye. |
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The divers first discovered a cannon, and on the third dive, silver and gold coins were spotted underneath that cannon. |
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These include engraved silver and copper vases, Indian armour, and a model of an Indian palace. |
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The silver bowl second prize was introduced a few years later when Chris Ratsey impressed Windeler with his good sportsmanship. |
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The riders finishing second and third are awarded silver and bronze medals respectively. |
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The silver fern is an emblem appearing on army insignia and sporting team uniforms. |
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In the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, there are references to gold and silver lamps as well. |
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Resources of energy are scarce, except in the territory of Kosovo, where considerable coal, lead, zinc, chromium and silver deposits are located. |
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Through the 5th and 6th centuries, gold and silver become more and more common. |
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This time saw the ransack of the Roman Empire by Germanic tribes, from which many Scandinavians returned with gold and silver. |
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Occupations by the Carthaginians and then by the Romans for her abundant silver deposits developed Hispania into a thriving multifaceted economy. |
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The resulting vast expansion of territory and the flows of South American silver to Castile had profound long term effects on Spain. |
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He wore a blue cloak and always carried a sword typically of a golden or silver hilt. |
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Buried Viking treasures consisting mainly of silver have been found in the Low Countries. |
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Historically, large infusions of gold or silver into an economy also led to inflation. |
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The team received a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games and a 3rd place at the 2010 European Men's Handball Championship. |
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He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and probably never had to work a day in his life. |
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Russia won the largest number of medals among the participating nations with 13 gold, 11 silver, and 9 bronze medals for a total of 33 medals. |
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If you're not careful, someone will sell you silverware that's really only silver plate. |
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A silver bowguard made by Loloma in 1968 has one side rough and unpolished and another highly polished. |
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These basins are of marble in the Forum Baths, but we hear of alvei of solid silver. |
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Freyja agrees, and says she would lend it to Thor even if it were made of silver or gold, and Loki flies off, the feather cloak whistling. |
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Drawing of a silver Thor's hammer amulet found in Fitjar, Hordaland, Norway. |
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Earlier examples were made from iron, bronze, or amber, although silver pendants became fashionable in the tenth century. |
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In March 2012 a hoard of 30,000 silver Roman coins, one of the largest discovered in Britain, was unearthed in an archaeological dig. |
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The coat of arms includes a depiction of the city wall, and two silver strips representing the River Avon and the hot springs. |
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The position grew to include other duties including purchasing royal jewels, gold, and silver, and appointing royal goldsmiths and jewellers. |
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The second form was an ordinary cross carved onto a round or oblong silver plate. |
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For Roger it was inscribed on a massive disc of solid silver, two metres in diameter. |
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The Catalan Atlas originally consisted of 6 vellum leaves folded down the middle painted in various colors including gold and silver. |
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She gave Coventry a number of works in precious metal by the famous goldsmith Mannig and bequeathed a necklace valued at 100 marks of silver. |
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Their role in providing silver was gradually surpassed by the Spanish, while even the Dutch challenged them for control of this trade. |
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Saddles, bits and bridles are ornamented with substantial amounts of silver. |
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They may be designed to burn with colored flames and sparks including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and silver. |
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A dense burst of glittering silver or gold stars which leave a heavy glitter trail and are very shiny in the night's sky. |
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For peasants this meant economic disaster, since they paid taxes in silver while conducting local trade and crop sales in copper. |
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The Thailand national basketball team had its most successful year at the 1966 Asian Games where it won the silver medal. |
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Once limited to silver or gold effects, colored crossettes such as red, green, or white are now very common. |
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To guard against devaluation, the currency was convertible with silver and gold, and the government accepted tax payments in paper currency. |
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At a hermitage on a mountain near Sinjar, he met a Kurdish mystic who gave him some silver coins. |
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One famous example was a large silver tree with cleverly designed pipes that dispensed various drinks. |
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The Hongxi Emperor improved finances by canceling requisitions for lumber, gold, and silver. |
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Opium smuggling provided 15 to 20 percent of the British Empire's revenue and simultaneously caused scarcity of silver in China. |
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Other silent versions appeared for the silver screen, and some adaptations even moulded Turpin into a figure styled on Robin Hood. |
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The embroidery edging the cloak is often in silver or gold thread and it is intricate in detail. |
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The need for silver coinage also affected the desire for expanded exploration as silver and gold were spent for trade to the Middle and Far East. |
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Another issue was that European mines were exhausted of silver ore and gold. |
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The spent silver, suddenly being spread throughout a previously cash starved Europe, caused widespread inflation. |
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On the other hand, the increase in the availability of silver coin allowed for commerce to expand in numerous ways. |
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Banks in the Italian Peninsula had great difficulty operating at the end of the 14th century, for lack of silver and gold coin. |
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Uniform at this time was a velvet coat trimmed with silver gilt, worn over armour. |
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The rawhide bow guard was laced up inside, trimmed with silver buttons, feathers, and paint. |
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Bullion is gold, silver, or other precious metals in the form of coins, ingots, or bars. |
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The LBMA sets and promotes quality standards for gold and silver bullion bars. |
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Historically, most currency were in the form of bullion coins, silver and gold being the most common metals. |
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Once Spanish sovereignty was established, the Spanish focused on the extraction and export of gold and silver. |
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They provide facilities for the refining, melting, assaying, transporting, trading and vaulting of gold and silver bullion. |
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Gold bullion and silver bullion are the most important forms of physical precious metals investments. |
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Two of Pizarro's men reported incredible riches, including gold and silver decorations around the chief's house. |
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Out of these, only one carrack went on to Ming China in order to purchase silk, also in exchange for Portuguese silver. |
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Copper is extracted from the sulfide ores, while gold and silver are extracted from both the sulfide and the oxide ores. |
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Goethite enriched with gold and silver is found in the 30 m thick oxide cap. |
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On the Feast of the Epiphany in 1501, two cardinals began to seal the holy door with two bricks, one silver and one gold. |
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She always had food and clothing and lived in a castle that was adorned with gold and silver. |
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Already by the 1490s, there are rumors that silver can be found in the island's sands. |
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In the Old World, the most desired trading goods were gold, silver, and spices. |
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The European economy was dependent on gold and silver currency, but low domestic supplies had plunged much of Europe into a recession. |
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Atahualpa offered the Spaniards enough gold to fill the room he was imprisoned in and twice that amount of silver. |
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Almost all of the gold and silver work of the Incan empire was melted down by the conquistadors. |
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Spain built its empire in great part upon the silver that was extracted from Bolivia's mines. |
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By the late 16th century, Bolivian silver was an important source of revenue for the Spanish Empire. |
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During the early 20th century, tin replaced silver as the country's most important source of wealth. |
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The Bolivian Andes produce principally tin although historically silver mining had a huge impact on the economy of 17th century Europe. |
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The Cathedral contains a vast amount of jewelry made of gold, silver and gemstones. |
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Tankards are usually made of silver, pewter, or glass, but can be made of other materials, for example wood, ceramic or leather. |
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Most of the gold and silver items appear to have been intentionally removed from the objects they were previously attached to. |
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Some Japanese ships visited the Philippines in the 1570s in order to export Japanese silver and import Philippine gold. |
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The king heard of his expeditions in lands rich in gold and silver and promised to support him. |
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A wide range of colours, many overpainted to achieve a different effect, and much gold and silver are used. |
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East Asia trading primarily functioned on a silver standard due to Ming China's use of silver ingots as a medium of exchange. |
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The discovery of silver in Zacatecas in the far north was a transformative event. |
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Most of the pages are decorated in red paint with details in gold, silver and blind. |
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Cochineal was a high value, low volume product that became the second most valuable Mexican export after silver. |
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The rich deposits of silver, particularly in Zacatecas and Guanajuato, resulted in silver extraction dominating the economy of New Spain. |
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He believes that silver and gold, as opposed to paper money, are the appropriate currency for international transactions. |
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By the early 1540s, he owned 20 silver mines in Sultepec, 12 in Taxco, and 3 in Zacualpan. |
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Although the bulk of imports to China were silver, the Chinese also purchased New World crops from the Spanish Empire. |
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A silver hoop, or ring, which the Indian women fasten round their naked ancles, because they use neither shoes nor stockings. |
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The later Sasanian Empire is also well represented by ornate silver plates and cups, many representing ruling monarchs hunting lions and deer. |
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The mountains contain relatively unexploited deposits of gold, silver, iron, and coal. |
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Gold and silver were brought by ship from South America, hauled across the isthmus, and loaded aboard ships for Spain. |
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However, Panama was enormously important to Spain strategically because it was the easiest way to transship silver mined in Peru to Europe. |
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She was richly clad in a bodice of gold-coloured camlet and a skirt of gray silk trimmed with gold and silver lace. |
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By the 18th century, declining silver production and economic diversification greatly diminished royal income. |
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According to the Spanish envoy's demands, Atahualpa offered to fill a large room with gold and promised the Spanish twice that amount in silver. |
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It took Germany 28 years to participate at the Olympics again in 2016, this time reaching the final and winning a silver medal. |
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In return China imported mostly silver from Peruvian and Mexican mines, transported via Manila. |
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The 2014 replica was made by Thomas Lyte, handcrafted in sterling 925 silver over 250 hours. |
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The current trophy is made from silver and gilt, and features a golden globe held up by three silver columns. |
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In response, King George I of Greece sent a silver cup which was presented at the Shropshire Olympian Games held that year in Shrewsbury. |
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Yet in days long past, but soon, we hope, to return, these quarters had a metally ring and were standard silver 900-1000th fine. |
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According to Kenya, he was no longer a Kenyan citizen, jeopardising his silver medal. |
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At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the gold, silver, and bronze medal winners were also given olive wreaths. |
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Since he had not been responsible for his disqualification, Queen Alexandra awarded him a gilded silver cup the next day. |
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The most individual medals were won by Veikko Huhtanen of Finland who took three golds, a silver and a bronze in men's gymnastics. |
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She asked about diamonds, and he showed her a very nice one-carater set in a silver ring. |
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Edoardo Mangiarotti won three medals, two silver and a bronze, having previously won a gold medal in the 1936 Games. |
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In the 1520s large scale extraction of silver from Mexico's Guanajuato began. |
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Crafted by Thomas Lyte, the trophy is made of mixed metals including sterling silver and 18ct gold plating. |
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Originally, the trophy presented to the event's winner was the Challenge Belt, a red leather belt with a silver buckle. |
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The winner of the Gentlemen's Doubles, Ladies' Doubles, and Mixed Doubles events receive silver cups. |
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Triathletes Alastair and Jonny Brownlee have won two golds and a silver and bronze respectively. |
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He was Britain's sole representative in boxing at the Athens Games, winning a silver medal at the age of 17 in the lightweight boxing category. |
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At the 2009 National Games, Hubei won both the gold and silver medals, with Inner Mongolia winning bronze. |
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Ainslie won silver at the 1996 Olympic Games and gold in the 2000 Summer Olympics in the Laser class. |
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The town council of Faversham changes only the hindquarters of the three lions to silver. |
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After 15 September 1709 no further silver coins were ever struck in Scotland. |
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The goal of mercantilism was to run trade surpluses, so that gold and silver would pour into London. |
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The Faroe Islands compete in the Paralympics and have won several gold, silver and bronze medals there. |
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The country also has significant deposits of gypsum, limestone, and smaller quantities of copper, silver, gold, barite, and dolomite. |
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Great Britain won its first fencing medal, a silver, in 1908 at the London Games. |
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For the wealthy, this band was often a thin and flexible band of burnished gold, silver or findruine. |
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Sweden had from early medieval times exported iron and silver mined there, while Poland had and still has extensive salt mines. |
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While their and others' attacks brought home a great deal of money, they hardly dented the flow of gold and silver from Mexico to Spain. |
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A question of interest here is whether the silver contents in the four mintings are different. |
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The blinding lights seen on Fifth and Madison Avenues are mirrorlike silver and gold daytime handbags from Louis Vuitton. |
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However, these larger gold and silver issues were virtually commemorative coins and had limited circulation. |
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The cheese was cut into small pieces and arranged on a silver platter. |
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The coat of arms of Ireland features a gold harp with silver strings on a blue background, which dates from the 13th century. |
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Cobs were usually irregularly shaped. They were a means to account for a specific amount of silver in a coin that could be used for commerce. |
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Hispania supplied the Roman Empire with silver, food, olive oil, wine, and metal. |
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This was largely caused by the sudden influx of gold and silver from the New World into Habsburg Spain. |
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When working with wet photographic plates, Swan noticed that heat increased the sensitivity of the silver bromide emulsion. |
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The engines were metallic silver and the tail red with the Virgin logo in white. |
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The crest on top of the arms is a white or silver legless wyvern with red and white wounds showing, on a wreath of red and white. |
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Most of the mining happens in the Pyrenees mountains, iron, gold, coal, valuable minerals such as lead, silver, zinc, and salt are all mined. |
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This includes production of silver, iron, copper and other base metals from their ores. |
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The territory held by the Celts contained tin, lead, iron, silver and gold. |
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In 2000, Leon Johnson, a multimedia artist, installed a silver prosthesis to replace them. |
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In the United Kingdom, he was awarded 9 platinum, 11 gold and 8 silver albums, and in the United States, 5 platinum and 9 gold. |
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The guild's work is characterized by plain surfaces of hammered silver, flowing wirework and colored stones in simple settings. |
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As the Roman civilisation grew in importance and expanded its trade with the Celtic world, silver and bronze coinage became more common. |
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These paintings often employed the use of a silver, acrylic background with layers of dark oil pigment on top. |
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To sort by gold, silver, and then bronze, sort first by the bronze column, then the silver, and then the gold. |
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In all cases, the surface of the plastic must be made conductable, and this is most simply done by coating with a reduced silver film. |
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At the competition, Ireland won its first medal at the European SC Championships ever, a silver in the 200m breaststroke by Andrew Bree. |
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The arms of Ireland since the sixteenth century have been a gold harp with silver strings on a blue field. |
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Among threatened species of the region, there are several antelopes such as the beira, the dibatag, the silver dikdik and the Speke's gazelle. |
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The primary symbol of the Sultan was a silver baton, which was considered to have magical properties. |
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Britain's exports are harder to detect archaeologically, but will have included metals, such as silver and gold and some lead, iron and copper. |
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Right below the timberline, in the Hudsonian zone, the whitebark, foxtail, and silver pines grow. |
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Argentina was first associated with the silver mountains legend, widespread among the first European explorers of the La Plata Basin. |
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It is known that both Canterbury and Rochester were the home to major mints in this period, primarily producing silver sceattas. |
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Gold shone on the prows, silver also flashed on the variously shaped ships. |
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Red and silver are the colours of John the Baptist, the town's patron saint, and the lamb is his symbol. |
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The three gold medals were won by the cyclist Chris Hoy and the silver was won by Katherine Grainger in rowing. |
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Decorative arts for luxury consumers included fine pottery, silver and bronze vessels and implements, and glassware. |
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Several Colorado papers have reproduced the substance of our articles on silver, and we thank them for their backscratches. |
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It was roofed in with gold and silver beams, incrusted with pearls and jade. |
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David's acquisition of the mines at Alston on the South Tyne enabled him to begin minting the Kingdom of Scotland's first silver coinage. |
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The revenue of his English earldom and the proceeds of the silver mines at Alston allowed David to produce Scotland's first coinage. |
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The abbey became a popular place of pilgrimage for St Fergus, whose skull the Abbots kept as a relic in a silver casket by the atlar. |
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They were distinguished from the other companies of the Body Guards by wearing white bandoleers garnished with silver lace. |
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Isaac surrendered and was confined with silver chains, because Richard had promised that he would not place him in irons. |
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The mob then attacked two friaries in the town, looting their gold and silver and smashing images. |
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Her bedlinen was changed daily, and her own chefs prepared meals with a choice of 32 dishes served on silver plates. |
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Grim though the economic spur may be, some scientists see a slim silver lining in the sudden newsiness of laughably large numbers. |
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The colony was a potential threat to the Spanish Empire by being near to routes used for silver shipments. |
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In 1934, King George V permitted his subjects in Scotland to display the ancient Royal Standard of Scotland as part of his silver jubilee. |
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All these pieces of paper are, issued with as much solemnity and authority as if they were of pure gold or silver. |
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A new coin, called the Awbridge silver penny, was issued in 1153 in an attempt to stabilise the English currency after the war. |
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Notes issued by central banks had a theoretical risk when they were backed by gold and silver. |
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Gold coins salvaged from shipwrecks retain almost all of their original appearance, but silver coins slowly corrode. |
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Isaac surrendered and was confined with silver chains because Richard had promised that he would not place him in irons. |
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By these means a device is obtained, the ground of which is composed of green or English gold, with inlayings of silver and fine gold. |
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Therefore, the total number of bronze medals is greater than the total number of gold or silver medals. |
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Substantial quantities of gold, copper, and lead were extracted, along with lesser amounts of zinc and silver. |
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It involves bonding a thin layer of another metal such as gold, silver, chromium or zinc to the surface of the product. |
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Roman mine workings of lead and silver are evident in the regions occupied by the Deceangli. |
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In shape it is a tiny square box of silver, studded outside with eight small balas-rubies. |
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Copper is one of a few metallic elements with a natural color other than gray or silver. |
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Galena, a principal ore of lead, often bears silver, interest in which helped initiate widespread extraction and use of lead in ancient Rome. |
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Arsenic, tin, antimony, silver, gold, copper, and bismuth are common impurities in lead minerals. |
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Impurities are mostly arsenic, antimony, bismuth, zinc, copper, silver, and gold. |
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The melt is treated in a reverberatory furnace with air, steam, and sulfur, which oxidizes the impurities except for silver, gold, and bismuth. |
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Metallic silver and gold are removed and recovered economically by means of the Parkes process, in which zinc is added to lead. |
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The zinc dissolves silver and gold, both of which, being immiscible in lead, can be separated and retrieved. |
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Other widely used zinc alloys include nickel silver, typewriter metal, soft and aluminium solder, and commercial bronze. |
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Most silver is produced as a byproduct of copper, gold, lead, and zinc refining. |
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As one of the seven metals of antiquity, silver has had an enduring role in most human cultures. |
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Many churches had concealed their vestments and their silver, and had buried their stone altars. |
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Peri is in his 70s and has a thick silver mustache and a baldpate covered by a yarmulke. |
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She kicked off her silver ballet flats and stretched out her toes like a cat. |
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In the presence of air, and especially in the presence of hydrogen peroxide, silver dissolves readily in aqueous solutions of cyanide. |
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The precipitation of copper in ancient silver can be used to date artifacts, as copper is nearly always a constituent of silver alloys. |
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Eventually the world's stock of precious metal was doubled or even tripled by silver from the Americas. |
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The only known dihalide of silver is the difluoride, AgF2, which can be obtained from the elements under heat. |
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The other three silver halides are highly insoluble in aqueous solutions and are very commonly used in gravimetric analytical methods. |
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He was skinny, and wearing drainpipe jeans and a gothic Tshirt with the word 'VOMIT' in silver sparkly letters on black. |
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It was once called lunar caustic because silver was called luna by the ancient alchemists, who believed that silver was associated with the moon. |
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It is often used for gravimetric analysis, exploiting the insolubility of the silver halides which it is a common precursor to. |
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Yellow silver carbonate, Ag2CO3 can be easily prepared by reacting aqueous solutions of sodium carbonate with a deficiency of silver nitrate. |
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Its principal use is for the production of silver powder for use in microelectronics. |
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Billed as 'earware' it's more jewelry than ho-hum headset and comes in black, silver and rose gold to accessorize with your every outfit. |
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Since silver is more reactive than gold, supplies of native silver were much more limited than those of gold. |
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The situation changed with the discovery of cupellation, a technique that allowed silver metal to be extracted from its ores. |
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The Romans also recorded the extraction of silver in central and northern Europe in the same time period. |
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Drake and his party found that they had captured around 20 tons of silver and gold. |
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He made off with a fortune in gold, but had to leave behind another fortune in silver, because it was too heavy to carry back to England. |
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Most true silver deposits, as opposed to argentiferous deposits of other metals, came from Tertiary period vulcanism. |
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Peru, Bolivia and Mexico have been mining silver since 1546, and are still major world producers. |
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In Central Asia, Tajikistan is known to have some of the largest silver deposits in the world. |
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So the primary production of silver requires the smelting and then cupellation of argentiferous lead ores, a historically important process. |
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A natural alloy containing more than 20 per cent silver is called electrum, and was regarded by the ancients as a different metal from gold. |
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It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of the piece, that men estimate commodities and exchange them. |
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Examples include table silver for cutlery, for which silver is highly suited due to its antibacterial properties. |
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One drawback is the easy tarnishing of silver in the presence of hydrogen sulfide and its derivatives. |
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Electrolytically refined pure silver plating is effective at increasing resistance to tarnishing. |
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In medicine, silver is incorporated into wound dressings and used as an antibiotic coating in medical devices. |
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Wound dressings containing silver sulfadiazine or silver nanomaterials are used to treat external infections. |
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The silver ion is bioactive and in sufficient concentration readily kills bacteria in vitro. |
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The lead and silver mines at Charterhouse in the Mendip Hills were run by the military. |
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Gold continued to be minted until the end of the 7th century, when it was replaced by silver coins. |
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As the sanctuary was bandited at least once, it may be that the silver wine cups I have are from the treasure. |
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The original silver images are bleached off and the silver is then recovered and recycled. |
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The use of silver nitrate and silver halides in photography has rapidly declined with the advent of digital technology. |
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They are used in conductive inks for printed electronics, and have a much lower melting point than larger silver particles of micrometre size. |
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They are also used medicinally in antibacterials and antifungals in much the same way as larger silver particles. |
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Photochromic lenses include silver halides, so that ultraviolet light in natural daylight liberates metallic silver, darkening the lenses. |
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The arms consist of a silver shield bearing a red cross with a red upright sword in the first quarter. |
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The Romans also exploited metals such as copper, lead and silver in the area. |
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This effect is lost in the presence of sulfur due to the extreme insolubility of silver sulfide. |
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To avoid the formation of such compounds, ammonia and acetylene should be kept away from silver equipment. |
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Roman silver Denarius with the head of captive Gaul 48 BC, following the campaigns of Julius Caesar. |
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These were small silver pennies, which often did not bear the name of either the moneyer or the king for whom they were produced. |
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This became the standard until the 20th century and is today known as sterling silver, named after its association with the currency. |
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Henry reformed the system of silver coins in England in 1247, replacing the older Short Cross silver pennies with a new Long Cross design. |
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The English currency was almost exclusively silver until 1344 when the gold noble was successfully introduced into circulation. |
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Edward's heart was removed, placed in a silver container, and later buried with Isabella at Newgate Church in London. |
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There was an extensive use of gold and silver plates, jewels and enamelling at court, which would have been richly decorated. |
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Lead and silver mine workings are evident in the area, with several sows of lead found bearing the name 'DECEANGI' inscribed in Roman epigraphy. |
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Indeed, currency would be more effective for not being gold and silver but fiduciary paper money. |
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A blue silver tabby has paw pads and nose leather to be dark blue to slate grey. |
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Countries such as China, which had a silver standard, almost avoided the depression entirely. |
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British merchants sent silver abroad in payments whilst goods for export were paid for with gold. |
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A silver portal opens in the sky and a ebony alicorn stallion gallops from it the silver tips on his black wings shine in the sun's light. |
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There silver plates and foreign coins were melted down and in some cases just hammered into shape to produce coins quickly. |
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For the 2012 Summer Olympics the mint won a contract to produce 4,700 gold, silver and bronze medals for competitors. |
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Ceremonial Maundy money and bullion coinage of gold sovereigns, half sovereigns, and gold and silver Britannia coins are also produced. |
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Aggravating this outflow was the fact that silver was the only commodity accepted by China for exporting goods during this period. |
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