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Silver Spoons
Silver Spoons is an American sitcom broadcast on NBC from 1982 to 1986, following young Ricky Stratton, who leaves military school to live with his wealthy, childlike father.
Silver Spring Networks
Silver Spring Networks was an American smart grid networking company for utilities and cities, headquartered in Redwood City, California, and acquired by Itron in January 2018.
Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring, Maryland: unincorporated census-designated place in southeastern Montgomery County near Washington, D.C.; 81,015 residents (2020), major transit hub with Metrorail, MARC, and the Purple Line, and a revitalized downtown.
Silver Springs (song)
"Silver Springs" is a 1976 Stevie Nicks song cut from Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, released as the B-side of "Go Your Own Way" and revived by the 1997 The Dance live performance.
Silver Springs, Florida
Silver Springs, Florida: artesian spring group in Marion County near Ocala forming the Silver River headwaters, discharging 796 cfs; famed glass bottom boat attraction from the 1870s, Ray and Davidson theme park era, underwater films, now Silver Springs State Park.
Silver St. Cloud
Silver St. Cloud, a DC Comics Gotham socialite created by Steve Englehart and Walt Simonson, debuted in Detective Comics #470 (1977) as a Bruce Wayne love interest who deduced he was Batman and left him; later killed in The Widening Gyre.
Silver stain
Silver stain is a family of staining methods that use silver compounds to visualize proteins, DNA, and nerve fibers, detecting proteins down to sub-nanogram levels in gels.
Silver Staining
Silver staining: metal-impregnation technique introduced by Golgi in 1873 (black reaction) and shared by Golgi and Cajal's 1906 Nobel Prize; detects low-ng proteins in gels, fungi (GMS), spirochetes (Warthin-Starry), and tau pathology, but has narrow dynamic range and MS incompatibility.
Silver standard
The silver standard is a monetary system using silver as money, dominant for centuries before gold supplanted it; China, the last major user, kept silver until 1935.
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.
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.
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.