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Silver Apples
Silver Apples: New York experimental duo (1967) of Simeon Coxe and Danny Taylor, pioneers of electronic rock using the homemade oscillator instrument the Simeon; albums Silver Apples (1968) and Contact (1969).
Silver Arrows
Silver Arrows (Silberpfeile): the silver Grand Prix cars of Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union that dominated European racing 1934–1939 under the 750 kg formula, debuting at Avus on May 27, 1934; the name continues with Mercedes' modern F1 team.
Silver as an investment
Silver as an investment is the purchase of silver or silver-linked financial instruments to preserve or increase wealth, through bullion, trusts, futures, or mining shares.
Silver Banshee
Silver Banshee (Siobhan McDougal, later Siobhan Smythe) is a DC Comics supervillain created by John Byrne, debuting in Action Comics #595 (1987); a cursed Irish woman whose magical death wail kills anyone whose identity she knows, an enemy of Superman and Supergirl.
Silver Bleeds the Black Sun...
Silver Bleeds the Black Sun... is AFI's twelfth studio album (Run for Cover Records, October 3, 2025), a gothic rock and post-punk record influenced by The Cure, Bauhaus, and Sisters of Mercy, scoring a 79 Metascore.
Silver Bridge
The Silver Bridge, also called the Point Pleasant Bridge, carried US Route 35 over the Ohio River from 1928 until its 1967 collapse, which killed 46 people.
Silver bromide
Silver bromide (AgBr) is a pale yellow, light-sensitive silver salt, found naturally as the mineral bromargyrite, that served as the working material of black-and-white photographic film and paper.
Silver bullet
Silver bullet: literally a silver projectile of werewolf folklore, figuratively a simple, seemingly magical fix for a hard problem, used mostly negatively; idiom recorded 1930-35, popularized by Fred Brooks's 1986 essay No Silver Bullet.
Silver Bullet (film)
Silver Bullet, also known as Stephen King's Silver Bullet, is a 1985 American werewolf horror film directed by Daniel Attias and written by Stephen King.
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.