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Silver carp
Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), a large Asian filter-feeding cyprinid farmed in Chinese polyculture since the Tang Dynasty and artificially propagated from 1958; a top global aquaculture species and a jumping invasive carp in the Mississippi basin.
Silver certificate (United States)
A silver certificate was a US paper currency note, issued from 1878 to 1965, backed by silver and once exchangeable for silver dollars or bullion.
Silver chloride
Silver chloride (AgCl) is a white, light-sensitive inorganic compound of silver and chlorine, known for early photography and for the Ag/AgCl reference electrode in electrochemistry.
Silver chloride electrode
The silver chloride electrode (Ag/AgCl) is the most widely used reference electrode in electrochemistry, a silver wire coated with silver chloride in potassium chloride solution.
Silver chromate
Silver chromate (Ag2CrO4), the silver(I) salt of chromic acid, is a slightly water-soluble inorganic compound forming brick-red, light-sensitive crystals, best known as the endpoint indicator in Mohr's chloride titration.
Silver City, New Mexico
Silver City, New Mexico: Grant County seat founded about 1870 after silver was found at Chloride Flat, incorporated under its 1878 territorial charter, population 9,704 (2020), home of Western New Mexico University.
Silver Convention
Silver Convention was a Munich-based German Euro-disco group (1974-1979) created by producers Silvester Levay and Michael Kunze, whose six-word hit "Fly, Robin, Fly" topped the US Hot 100 for three weeks in 1975 and won a Grammy.
Silver Dollar City
Silver Dollar City is an 1880s-themed amusement park in Branson, Missouri, opened May 1, 1960 by the Herschend family atop Marvel Cave; named for silver dollars given as change, it draws over two million guests yearly.
Silver Falls State Park
Silver Falls State Park, Oregon's largest state park at over 9,000 acres near Salem, opened in 1933 and is known for the 7.2-mile Trail of Ten Falls, which passes ten waterfalls and runs behind four, including 177-foot South Falls.
Silver fern
Silver fern (ponga; Alsophila dealbata, formerly Cyathea dealbata): a New Zealand-endemic tree fern up to 10 m with white frond undersides, common in drier lowland forest, Not Threatened, and a national symbol of New Zealand.
Silver Fern railcars
The Silver Fern railcars are three diesel-electric railcars built in Japan in 1972 for New Zealand Railways, which ran the named Silver Fern service on the Wellington–Auckland daylight run until 1991.
Silver fox (animal)
Silver fox: melanistic color variant of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), black with silver-tipped guard hairs, not a separate species; also the farmed strain behind the 1959 Belyaev tame-fox domestication experiment in Novosibirsk.
Silver hallmarks
Silver hallmarks are official marks struck on silver by an independent assay office to certify the metal's purity, legally required in the UK since a statute of 1300.
Silver Hawk (飞鹰)
Silver Hawk (飞鹰, Fei Ying) is a 2004 Hong Kong sci-fi action film directed by Jingle Ma, produced by and starring Michelle Yeoh as masked vigilante Lulu Wong, with Richie Jen and Luke Goss; a Lunar New Year release that flopped in Hong Kong but won a Huabiao co-production award.
Silver Hill Energy Partners
Founded in 2011 by Kyle D. Miller, Silver Hill Energy Partners is a Dallas, Texas-based private investment firm. It raises institutional funds for U.S. oil and gas assets.
Silver Horn Calendar
The Silver Horn Calendar is a pictorial Kiowa calendar drawn by artist Silver Horn (Haungooah), covering one hundred years of Kiowa history from 1828 to 1929.
Silver iodide
Silver iodide (AgI) is a light yellow, photosensitive compound of silver and iodine, best known as the ice-nucleating agent in cloud seeding and a light-sensitive salt of early photography.
Silver Jews
Silver Jews, American indie rock band formed in 1989 in Hoboken, New Jersey by poet David Berman with Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich; six Drag City albums 1994-2008, often mislabeled a Pavement side project, disbanded 2009.
Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II
Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, 1977 celebration of her 25th accession anniversary: church services in February, 56,000-mile Commonwealth and UK tours, Jubilee Day on 7 June with a Gold State Coach procession to St Paul's, and protests including the Sex Pistols.
Silver King (wrestler)
Silver King (César Cuauhtémoc González Barrón, 1968–2019), Mexican luchador of the Wagner dynasty, CMLL world champion, WCW and Black Tiger III performer, Ramses in Nacho Libre; died in a London match.
Silver Lake Alpine
Silver Lake Alpine is a family of structured-equity investment funds managed by the private equity firm Silver Lake, targeting downside-protected positions in large-cap technology companies.
Silver Lake Long-Term Capital -
Silver Lake Long-Term Capital is a 25-year private equity strategy run by Silver Lake, the Menlo Park technology investor, reporting $2 billion sold in 2020.
Silver Lake Private Equity
Silver Lake Private Equity, L.P. is a Delaware limited partnership fund vehicle under the Silver Lake technology investment platform, based in Menlo Park, California, organized in 2024.
Silver Lake Private Equity - Anchor (B), L.P.
Silver Lake Private Equity - Anchor (B), L.P. is a Delaware limited partnership private equity fund of the buyout firm Silver Lake, formed in 2024.
Silver Lake Ranch
Silver Lake Ranch: ~54,000-acre former Moody Foundation ranch in Edwards and Kinney counties, Texas, acquired by TPWD in 2026 to become Silver Lake State Park, the state's second largest state park; unrelated namesakes exist in Slovakia and Nevada.
Silver Lake Strategic Investors VI, L.P.
Silver Lake Strategic Investors VI, L.P. is a Delaware private equity fund vehicle of technology investment firm Silver Lake, formed in 2023 and reporting $1.2 billion sold.
Silver Lake, Los Angeles
Silver Lake is a hillside Los Angeles neighborhood named for water commissioner Herman Silver and its 1906–1908 Mulholland reservoir, known for silent-film studios, modernist architecture by Neutra and Schindler, and early gay rights history.
Silver Latin epic
Silver Latin epic is the Latin epic poetry written after Augustus' death in AD 14, principally by Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Silius Italicus, and Statius in the first century AD.
Silver Legion of America
Silver Legion of America (Silver Shirts), fascist organization founded by William Dudley Pelley on January 31, 1933, headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina; published Liberation, claimed about 12,358 members in 1939, and collapsed after Pelley's 1942 sedition conviction.
Silver Line (Washington Metro)
The Silver Line, also known as Dulles Metrorail, is a 23-mile Washington Metro extension through Tysons, Reston, and Washington Dulles International Airport to Ashburn, opened in phases in 2014 and 2022.