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The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.

atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver.

d paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride. [Eng.]

A native compound of mercury and silver.

To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.

mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury. Ure.

A picture taken on a place of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.

ent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver in water, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 grams per second. Called also the international ampère.

A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.…

in the writings of Ambrose in the fourth century. -- Apostle spoon (Antiq.), a spoon of silver, with the handle terminating in the figure of an apostle. One or more were offered by sponsors at baptism as a present to the godchild. B. Jonson.

A precipitation of silver, in a beautiful arborescent form.

tions, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.

Silver, or money. [Archaic]

Of or pertaining to silver; resembling, containing, or combined with, silver.

A (patented) alloy of aluminium and silver, with a density of about 2.9.

A solution of silver phosphate in an aqueous solution of ethylene diamine, used as an antiseptic astringent and as a disinfectant.

An alloy of nicked with copper and zinc; German silver.

Silvery white. Gray.

A coating or overlaying with silver. [R.] Johnson.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, silver; -- said of certain compounds of silver in which this metal has its lowest proportion; as, argentic chloride.