This pound was brought to Britain and other provinces where it became the standard for weighing gold and silver and for use in all commercial transactions.
Isis claims it is ready to start issuing its own currency in the form of gold and silver coins for use in its "caliphate".
There are legal-tender laws that regulate production of government currency and counterfeiting laws that prohibit things like "uttering" gold or silver coins "for use as current money".
He earned the Silver Star for using his plane to push a disabled fighter jet through hostile skies to a safer area 60 miles away.
Silver ions kill pathogens by binding to proteins in their cells, making silver compounds ideal for use in antiseptics and wound dressings.
The Food and Drug Administration cleared silver diamine fluoride for use as a tooth desensitizer for adults 21 and older.
The most immediate plans for the Geminoid F are not, just yet, for the silver screen, but rather for use in hospitals, presumably as ancillaries to medics rather than medics themselves.
Giants such as Dow Chemical, DuPont and Smith & Nephew are pouring money into manipulating silver and other agents for use in antibacterial textiles.
In 1837, the eccentric New York chemist Lewis Feuchtwanger had experimented with a smaller cent size in making model coins as part of a plan to sell his alloy (similar to base-metal German silver) to the government for use in coinage.
Fig. 8 Equivalent circuit model for EIS analysis: simplified equivalent circuit model for ALD coatings on silver used for fitting electrochemical impedance spectroscopy data, adapted from [29].
