Ok so why isnt silver used in connectors for high-end electronic products?
Cos when you run a current through it it forms an oxide layer
I know your biased towards it cos you own shitloads of it, but it is a fact man.
It isn't a fact. When high current is passed through gold, Electromigration caused the formation of voids, hillocks, and whiskers. The metal fails near the cathode, suggesting that gold atoms migrate in the direction of electron flow. This doesn't happen with metals like copper, silver and aluminum.
Computer peripherals and audio equipment, where there is frequent plugging and unplugging, use gold-coated contacts to assure consistently clean, corrosion-free contacts and reliable signals. They don't use it because it conducts better than silver.
Running current through silver doesn't cause an oxide layer to form at all, where did you study science? Gold cannot run a high current through it. Know why? Because it will melt. Let me know if you have any other assumptions about silver and gold, I'm sure I can set you straight.
I own more Dollars in Gold than I do in silver. Got platinum and rhodium too, but not much.
EDIT: From one of your links "Industrial demand for silver continued to decline, and in the United States, demand for silver in photography fell to slightly more than 160 tons, compared with a high of 190 tons in 2000. Although silver is still used in x-ray films, many hospitals have begun to use digital imaging systems. Approximately 99% of the silver in photographic wastewater may be recycled. Silver demand for use in coins, electronics, industrial applications, and jewelry increased, while photographic and silverware applications declined."
From one of my links...."The demand for silver in industrial applications continues to increase and includes use of silver in bandages for wound care, batteries, brazing and soldering, in catalytic converters in automobiles, in cell phone covers to reduce the spread of bacteria, in clothing to minimize odor, electronics and circuit boards, electroplating, hardening bearings, inks, mirrors, solar cells, water purification, and wood treatment to resist mold. Silver was used for miniature antennas in Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFIDs) that were used in casino chips, freeway toll transponders, gasoline speed purchase devices, passports, and on packages to keep track of inventory shipments. Mercury and silver, the main components of dental amalgam, are biocides, and their use in amalgam inhibits recurrent decay."
You don't really think silver has gone from $4.30 an ounce to $35 because there is LESS demand do you?
and does it work
