The kyat was a denomination of both silver and gold coinages in Burma until 1889.

Nominally, 16 silver kyat equal 1 gold kyat.

To prepare the latter, silver chloride was precipitated from a solution containing Af obtained from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The silver chloride was fused under vacuum in the presence of aluminum chips with the resultant product of Af which was sublimed into a flask on the vacuum line.

It was the silver foil from the chocolate bar he had been eating.

Wires whined as a cold November blast rocked the silver wings, but the engine roar was reassuring to the pilot bundled in the open cockpit.

everyone was flipping silver dollars.

The night we first met, at one of Mrs. Monmouth's giant parties, he was wearing a brown cashmere jacket with silver buttons and a soft pink Viyella shirt ; ;

As a god of archery, Apollo was known as Aphetor ( ; Ἀφήτωρ, Aphētōr, from ὰφίημι, " to let loose ") or Aphetorus ( ; Ἀφητόρος, Aphētoros, of the same origin ), Argyrotoxus ( ; Ἀργυρότοξος, Argurotoxos, literally " with silver bow "), Hecaërgus ( ; Ἑκάεργος, Hekaergos, literally " far-shooting "), and Hecebolus ( ; Ἑκηβόλος, Hekēbolos, literally " far-shooting ").

The " international ampere " was an early realization of the ampere, defined as the current that would deposit grams of silver per second from a silver nitrate solution.

When a beam of silver atoms was passed through a specially shaped magnetic field, the beam was split based on the direction of an atom's angular momentum, or spin.

Grey slashed public expenditure against heavy opposition, although its impact was negligible at this point: silver was discovered in Glen Osmond that year, agriculture was well underway, and other mines sprung up all over the state, aiding Adelaide's commercial development.

Adelaide was not as badly hit as the larger gold-rush cities of Sydney and Melbourne, and silver and lead discoveries at Broken Hill provided some relief.

Native copper, however, was found worldwide, along with silver, gold and platinum, which were also used to make tools, jewelry, and other objects since Neolithic times.

The amalgam was applied as a paste and then heated until the mercury vaporized, leaving the gold, silver, or tin behind.

Mercury was often used in mining, to extract precious metals like gold and silver from their ores.

Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

The spread of the Akkadian state as far as the " silver mountain " ( possibly the Taurus Mountains ), the " cedars " of Lebanon, and the copper deposits of Magan, was largely motivated by the goal of securing control over these imports.

Throughout the 5th century BC, Athens sought to consolidate its control over Thrace, which was strategically important because of its primary materials ( the gold and silver of the Pangaion hills and the dense forests essential for naval construction ), and the sea routes vital for Athens ' supply of grain from Scythia.

Volta had determined that the most effective pair of dissimilar metals to produce electricity was zinc and silver.

The logo was redesigned with red and silver accents to depict a more powerful, aggressive falcon, which now more closely resembles the capital letter F. Although the Falcons still wore black helmets, the new uniforms featured jerseys and pants with red trim down the sides.

But the " Burnt City " of his second stratum, revealed in 1873, with its fortifications and vases, and a hoard of gold, silver and bronze objects, which the discoverer connected with it, began to arouse a curiosity which was destined presently to spread far outside the narrow circle of scholars.

The imbalance of this effect between the warmer black side and the cooler silver side means the net pressure on the vane is equivalent to a push on the black side, and as a result the vanes spin round with the black side trailing.

Concurrently, until the early 1980s, U. S. Navy and U. S. Coast Guard captains selected for promotion to the rank of rear admiral ( lower half ), would wear the same insignia as rear admiral ( upper half ), i. e., two silver stars for collar insignia or sleeve braid of one wide and one narrow gold stripe, even though they were actually only equivalent to one-star officers.

Because silver was worth less than its legal equivalent in gold, taxpayers paid their government bills in silver, while international creditors demanded payment in gold, resulting in a depletion of the nation's gold supply.

The yen was legally defined as 0. 78 troy ounces ( 24. 26 g ) of pure silver, or 1. 5 grams of pure gold ( as recommended by the European Congress of Economists in Paris in 1867 ; the 5-yen coin was equivalent to the Argentine 5 peso fuerte coin ),

British government sources suggest that prices have risen over 61-fold since 1914, so a mediæval sterling silver penny might have the equivalent purchasing power of around £ 4. 50 today, and a farthing ( a quarter penny ) would have the value of slightly more than today's pound ( about £ 1. 125 ).

Sixty guilders in 1626 had the approximate value of $ 1000 in 2006, according to the Institute for Social History of Amsterdam Based on the price of silver, Straight Dope author Cecil Adams calculated an equivalent of $ 72 in 1992.

Although his father left an estate of nearly fourteen talents, ( equivalent to about 220 years of a laborer's income at standard wages, or 11 million dollars in terms of median US annual incomes ) Demosthenes asserted his guardians had left nothing " except the house, and fourteen slaves and thirty silver minae " ( 30 minae = ½ talent ).

If she had no children, he returned her dowry to her and paid her a sum equivalent to the bride-price, or a mina of silver if there had been none.

As silver flooded into the European economy from domestic and overseas sources, Thalers and Thaler-sized coins were minted all over with equivalent coins such as the crown, daalder from which the English word " dollar " is derived, krona, and from 1497, the Spanish eight real coin was minted — a coin which would later become known in some parts of the world as the peso.

The father of the child must " redeem " the child from a known Kohen representing the original Temple priesthood, for the sum of five silver Shekels, or equivalent in country's currency ( if it has silver currency of the correct weight ).

The father states that he prefers the child to the money, then he recites a blessing and hands over five silver coins ( or an equivalent amount of total silver ).

Mosiah II set the rate at one senine of gold ( or the equivalent senum of silver ) for one day's work ( Alma 11: 1, 3 ).

This adds up to about 2, 800, 000 troy ounces ( 87 tonnes ) of silver, equivalent to £ 250, 000 at the time, and worth about £ 10 million in money ( its purchasing power at that time may have exceeded £ 100 million and may have been as high as £ 1 billion of today's currency ).

Therefore, the value of the monetary pound sterling was equivalent to only 3. 87 troy ounces of sterling silver.

Even for the Dutch, who controlled much of the mid-century sugar trade, a kilogram of sugar was worth ½ an ounce of silver ( the equivalent of ~$ 32 for a 5lb.

The new monetary standard finally established the Peso as 25 grams silver, 0. 900 fine ( 0. 7234 XAG ), equivalent to ₱ 942. 535 modern pesos of as of 22 December 2010.

In earlier times, the value of the coins was equivalent to the value of the metal from which they were minted: gold was used for the coins of the highest denominations, silver for the next-highest, and copper for the lowest coin denominations.

In economics, bimetallism is a monetary standard in which the value of the monetary unit is defined as equivalent both to a certain quantity of gold and to a certain quantity of silver ; such a system establishes a fixed rate of exchange between the two metals.

It was a measure of weight mainly for gold and silver, commonly used throughout western Europe and often equivalent to eight ounces.

Béla disposed of the equivalent of 23 tonnes of pure silver per year.

No gold solidi were minted after the Carolingians adopted the silver standard ; thenceforward the solidus or sol was a paper accounting unit equivalent to one-twentieth of a pound ( librum or livre ) of silver and divided into 12 denarii or deniers.