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The most common form of silver is sterling silver. This is actually only 92.5% pure silver, with the other 7.5% made up of other precious metals including copper.
Britannia silver is an alloy of 95.8% silver and 4.2% copper, also used for jewelry and silverware.
Mexican silver is 95% silver and 5% copper.
Fine silver is at least 99.9% pure and commercially available, but too soft for general use.
There are 6 other classes of Silver (10 total)
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