The electrical and thermal conductivity of silver are higher than those of other metals.
Important alloys are formed with copper, mercury, and other metals. Silver is used in the form
of its salts, oxides, and halides in photographic materials and alkaline batteries, or as the
element in electrical equipment, hard alloys, mirrors, chemical catalysts, coins, table silver,
and jewellery. Soluble silver compounds may be used as external antiseptic agents (15–50
µg/litre), as bacteriostatic agents (up to 100 µg/litre), and as disinfectants (>150 µg/litre) (2).