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  2. Silver-gilt - Wikipedia

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    Silver-gilt or gilded/gilt silver, sometimes known in American English by the French term vermeil, is silver (either pure or sterling) which has been gilded.Most large objects made in goldsmithing that appear to be gold are actually silver-gilt; for example, most sporting trophies (including medals such as the gold medals awarded in all Olympic Games after 1912) [1] and many crown jewels are ...

  3. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    In RuneScape it is a lightweight blue metal stronger than steel. In World of Warcraft, mithril and truesilver both appear; truesilver is a rare spawn node in the same areas as mithril. Both can be mined as ore and smelted into a bar using the mining profession.

  4. Gilding - Wikipedia

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    Gilding is a decorative technique for applying a very thin coating of gold over solid surfaces such as metal (most common), wood, porcelain, or stone. [1] A gilded object is also described as "gilt". Where metal is gilded, the metal below was traditionally silver in the West, to make silver-gilt (or vermeil ) objects, but gilt-bronze is ...

  5. Old School RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.

  6. Gilding metal - Wikipedia

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    Gilding metal is used for various purposes, including the jackets of bullets, driving bands on some artillery shells, [3] as well as enameled badges and other jewellery. The sheet is widely used for craft metalworking by hammer working. [1] It is also used particularly as a lower-cost training material for silversmiths.

  7. Tombac - Wikipedia

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    Currently, tombac foils are used in arts and crafts for decorative articles, especially as an economic alternative to very expensive gold leaf. Industry uses tombac foil for heating foils and etch applications. Gilding metal is a type of tombac which is one of the most common jacketing materials for full metal and hollow-point jacketed bullets.

  8. Keum-boo - Wikipedia

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    Keum-boo (Korean: 금부; also Geumbu, Kum-Boo or Kum-bu—Korean "attached gold") is an ancient Korean gilding technique used to apply thin sheets of gold to silver, to make silver-gilt. Traditionally, this technique is accomplished by first depleting a surface of sterling silver to bring up a thin layer of fine silver.

  9. List of copper alloys - Wikipedia

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    Copper alloys are metal alloys that have copper as their principal component. They have high resistance against corrosion . Of the large number of different types, the best known traditional types are bronze , where tin is a significant addition, and brass , using zinc instead.