All articles starting with S

Silver Star

Silver Star: United States military decoration for gallantry in action, third below the Medal of Honor and service crosses; established as the Citation Star on 9 July 1918, converted to a medal in 1932, criteria under 10 U.S.C. §3746.

Silver Streak (film)

Silver Streak (1976) is an Arthur Hiller comedy-thriller starring Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, and Richard Pryor, the first Wilder-Pryor film, about a murder aboard a Los Angeles-to-Chicago train; a mid-1970s hit with one Oscar nomination.

Silver sulfadiazine

Silver sulfadiazine (SSD), also called Flammazine, is a 1% topical cream combining silver and the sulfonamide sulfadiazine, introduced by Charles Fox Jr. in 1968 for preventing and treating infection in burn wounds.

Silver sulfide

Silver sulfide (Ag₂S) is an ionic compound of silver and sulfur, known in mineral form as acanthite, the principal silver ore and the black tarnish on silver objects.

Silver Surfer

Silver Surfer: Marvel Comics cosmic superhero created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Fantastic Four #48 (1966). Norrin Radd of Zenn-La, herald of Galactus wielding the Power Cosmic; distinct from Shalla-Bal, the alternate Surfer in the 2025 film.

Silver Surfer (TV series)

Silver Surfer (1998) is a 13-episode Fox Kids animated series from Saban and Marvel, following Norrin Radd as Galactus's herald; Kirby-inspired CGI-cel hybrid animation, cancelled on a Thanos cliffhanger, now on Disney+.

Silver Swan (character)

Silver Swan: DC Comics legacy villain name held by three women tied to Wonder Woman, Helen Alexandros, Valerie Beaudry, and Vanessa Kapatelis, each with sound-based powers from magic, experimentation, or cybernetics.

Oct 22, 2026

Silver telluride

Silver telluride (Ag₂Te, silver(I) telluride) is a narrow-bandgap silver chalcogenide semiconductor that becomes a superionic conductor above about 420 K, studied chiefly as an n-type thermoelectric material for near-room-temperature heat harvesting and in lead-free infrared photodetectors.

Silver Thursday

Silver Thursday was the March 27, 1980 collapse of the silver price, when the Hunt brothers' brokers began liquidating their collateral, pushing Wall Street toward panic.

Silver Wolf (Honkai: Star Rail)

Silver Wolf is a playable 5-star Quantum Nihility hacker character in Honkai: Star Rail, a Stellaron Hunter and Emanator of Elation released June 7, 2023, known for Weakness Implant debuffs, reworked in Version 3.4, and re-released as Silver Wolf LV.999.

Silver-indium-cadmium

Silver-indium-cadmium is a silver alloy containing about 15 percent indium and 5 percent cadmium, used as the neutron-absorbing core of control rods in pressurized water reactors.

Silver-oxide battery

A silver-oxide battery is a non-rechargeable button cell using silver oxide and zinc electrodes to deliver a nearly constant 1.55 volts, powering analog quartz watches, calculators, and precision instruments.

Silver-Russell syndrome

Silver-Russell syndrome, also called Russell-Silver syndrome, is a genomic imprinting disorder causing restricted growth before and after birth, with macrocephaly, body asymmetry, and feeding problems.

Silverado (film)

Silverado (1985) is Lawrence Kasdan's ensemble Western starring Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, and Danny Glover, released by Columbia on July 10, 1985, shot in New Mexico, nominated for two Oscars, and restored to 4K in 2025.

Silverback Therapeutics, Inc.

Silverback Therapeutics, Inc. was a Seattle-based clinical-stage biotechnology company, founded in 2016, that developed ImmunoTAC antibody-payload cancer therapeutics and merged into ARS Pharmaceuticals in November 2022.

Silverchair

Silverchair: Australian rock band from Newcastle (1992-2011), members Daniel Johns, Ben Gillies, Chris Joannou; five chart-topping albums from Frogstomp (1995) to Young Modern (2007), 21 ARIA Awards, indefinite hiatus since 2011.

Silvercorp Metals

Silvercorp Metals Inc. is a Vancouver-based Canadian mining company producing silver, lead, and zinc at the Ying Mining District and GC mine in China, with projects in Ecuador and Kyrgyzstan.

Silverfish

Silverfish (order Zygentoma, formerly Thysanura) are primitively wingless, scale-covered insects including Lepisma saccharina and firebrats; over 689 described species, ametabolous, long-lived, some household pests.

SilverHawks

SilverHawks is a 1986 Rankin/Bass animated series, a ThunderCats follow-up, about cyborg police fighting Mon*Star in the Galaxy of Limbo; 65 episodes, one syndicated season, later comics by Dynamite.

Silvering

Silvering, also called silverisation, is the chemical deposition of a thin silver layer onto glass to make a mirror, a process developed by Justus von Liebig in 1835.

Sep 24, 2026

Silverization of the economy and the lifting of silver bans in practice

The silverization of the economy (用银之渐) was the gradual displacement of Ming paper notes and coin by silver, marked by the 1436 Golden Flower Silver commutation.

Silverplate

Silverplate, also known as the Silver Plated Project, was the secret Manhattan Project program that modified B-29 bombers to deliver the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Silvershore Internet

Silvershore Internet is the internet-sector venture capital platform of Silvershore, a New York investment firm founded by Jonathan Sands in 2012, headquartered at 20 West 55th Street.

Silverstein (band)

Silverstein is a Canadian post-hardcore/emo band formed in 2000 in Burlington, Ontario, known for Juno-nominated albums Discovering the Waterfront (2005) and A Beautiful Place to Drown (2020), members Shane Told and Paul Koehler, and the Antibloom/Pink Moon double LP (2025), distinct from author Shel Silverstein.

Silverstone Circuit

Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire, England: former RAF airfield and home of British motorsport. Hosted the first British GP (1948) and first F1 championship race (1950); F1 British GP until 2034, MotoGP through 2028.

Silverstone Elms

Silverstone Elms is the FIA-licensed 5.891 km, grade 2, 12-turn configuration of Silverstone Circuit used for the European Le Mans Series 4 Hours of Silverstone, license valid to 1 September 2028.

Silverstone Historic

Silverstone Historic: the historic circuit layout at Silverstone (5.857 km Historic Grand Prix Circuit) and its historic racing events, including the BRDC Classic, formerly Silverstone Classic, HSCC Finals, and Group C revival meetings.

Silversun Pickups

Silversun Pickups: Los Angeles alternative rock band formed in 2000 (as A Couple of Couples) by Brian Aubert and Nikki Monninger, later joined by Joe Lester and Christopher Guanlao. Seven albums from Carnavas (2006) to Tenterhooks (2026), produced latterly by Butch Vig.

Silverthrone

Silverthrone (Mount Silverthrone) is a remote 20-km-wide caldera complex and stratovolcano in the Coast Mountains of southwestern British Columbia, Canada, mainly erupted 100,000-500,000 years ago, with no known Holocene eruptions and a Moderate Canadian threat ranking.