Editing Silver (section)

===Miscellanea===
[[File:Diwali sweets India 2009.jpg|thumb|A tray of [[South Asian sweets]], with some pieces covered with shiny silver ''vark'']]
Pure silver metal is used as a food colouring. It has the [[E number|E174]] designation and is approved in the [[European Union]].<ref name="Martínez-Abad-2013">{{cite journal |last1=Martínez-Abad |first1=A. |last2=Ocio |first2=M.J. |last3=Lagarón |first3=J.M. |last4=Sánchez |first4=G. |title=Evaluation of silver-infused polylactide films for inactivation of ''Salmonella'' and feline calicivirus ''in vitro'' and on fresh-cut vegetables |journal=International Journal of Food Microbiology |volume=162 |issue=1 |year=2013 |pages=89–94 |doi=10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2012.12.024|pmid=23376782 }}</ref> Traditional Indian and Pakistani dishes sometimes include decorative silver foil known as ''[[vark]]'',<ref name="Sarvate-2005">{{cite news|url=http://indiacurrents.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=b8b860cc0946bef1dbe95caddfe4bcaa |title=Silver Coating |last=Sarvate |first=Sarita |date=4 April 2005 |newspaper=India Currents |access-date=5 July 2009 |author-link=Sarita Sarvate |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214002122/http://indiacurrents.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=b8b860cc0946bef1dbe95caddfe4bcaa |archive-date=14 February 2009 }}</ref> and in various other cultures, silver ''[[dragée]]'' are used to decorate cakes, cookies, and other dessert items.<ref name="Meisler-2005">{{cite news| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-dec-18-tm-dragee51-story.html | work=Los Angeles Times | title=A Tempest on a Tea Cart | first=Andy | last=Meisler | date=18 December 2005}}</ref>

[[Photochromic lens]]es include silver halides, so that ultraviolet light in natural daylight liberates metallic silver, darkening the lenses. The silver halides are reformed in lower light intensities. Colourless silver chloride films are used in [[Particle detector|radiation detectors]]. [[Zeolite]] sieves incorporating Ag<sup>+</sup> ions are used to [[Desalination|desalinate]] seawater during rescues, using silver ions to precipitate chloride as silver chloride. Silver is also used for its antibacterial properties for water sanitisation, but the application of this is limited by limits on silver consumption. [[Colloidal silver]] is similarly used to disinfect closed swimming pools; while it has the advantage of not giving off a smell like [[hypochlorite]] treatments do, colloidal silver is not effective enough for more contaminated open swimming pools. Small [[silver iodide]] crystals are used in [[cloud seeding]] to cause rain.<ref name="Brumby et al-12">Brumby et al., pp. 83–84</ref>

The [[Texas Legislature]] designated silver the official precious metal of Texas in 2007.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hatch |first1=Rosie (Ed.) |title=Texas Almanac 2022–2023 |date=2022 |publisher=Texas State Historical Association |location=Austin, Texas |isbn=9781625110664 |page=23}}</ref>