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Show LARGER USES OF SILVER Systematic study of silver and Its alloys will result In wider use In at least two fields, developing a non-tarnishing non-tarnishing silver for use In tableware table-ware and the arts, and of finding silver sil-ver alloys suitable for trimming automobiles. au-tomobiles. One of the possibilities will he through development of new alloys. It is well known that a small per ccntage in many cases only a fraction frac-tion of 1 per cent, of one metal alloyed al-loyed with another changes the pro-erties pro-erties of the latter greatly. It is known that certain metals, including cadmium, when alloyed with silver reduce its susceptibility to tarnish It is entirely possible that other metals or combinations of metals met-als with silver will form an alloy les? susceptible to tarnish, if not non-tarnishable, non-tarnishable, under ordinary conditions condi-tions There is the further possibility of developing relatively cheap alloys al-loys in which only a small proportion propor-tion of silver will be used which, due to the large consumption of such alloys, al-loys, would result in a large increase in the amount of silver consumed. Silver-aluminum falloys deserve consideration con-sideration in this connection. One of the uses to which such an alloy will be put will be trimming automobiles. A silver alloy relatively non-tarnish-able and solid throughout, would have decided advantages over the present nickel-plated trim. Such development de-velopment would mean a great deal to western mining states, i |