The phrase "a sheet of silver" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a flat piece or layer of silver, often in contexts related to crafting, jewelry making, or describing a physical object.
Example: "The artist carefully cut a sheet of silver to create intricate designs for the pendant."
Alternatives: "a piece of silver" or "a slab of silver".
It has to be grown in the lab on a sheet of silver.
The square rests on a a 5-nanometer slice of magnesium fluoride, atop a sheet of silver.
An ingot of copper, slightly alloyed with zinc and lead, was covered on both top and bottom with a sheet of silver and fired.
In the 1820s the English firm of Kirkby Smith & Co., Sheffield, Yorkshire, tried to plate britannia metal by fusing it with a sheet of silver.
That includes the expanding jewelry and watch lines, the Heritage collection of decorative pieces, bowls sculpted out of a sheet of silver or more affordable versions in the stainless steel Living line.
Some of the work here is very fancy, particularly that done in repousse, which involves placing a sheet of silver over a resilient surface, then working it with chasing tools and punches.
For an untitled 1999 piece, Breuer laid a swatch of cheesecloth atop a sheet of gelatin silver paper and ignited it.
At around the same time Thomas Boulsover invented a technique for fusing a thin sheet of silver onto a copper ingot producing a form of silver plating that became known as Sheffield plate.
In about the same period, a technique was developed for fusing a thin sheet of silver onto a copper ingot to produce silver plating, which became widely known as Sheffield plate.
The process that allowed the mirror to be mass produced into the product we know today was invented in 1835, two years before Robert Cornelius took the first selfie, a daguerreotype or photographic image etched with chemicals onto a sheet of polished silver-plated copper.
Mr. Shi then clipped a wide sheet of silver gelatin paper to a board, which in the dark looked like a home movie screen playing nothing but an upside-down image of the Hollywood sign.
