{
  "id": "silver.metal",
  "term": "silver",
  "sense": "metal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "silver",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a metal that has a white color",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "energy.capacity",
      "color.visual",
      "metal.element",
      "white.color"
    ],
    "interaction": "matter and energy interact to produce a substance that reflects light in a way perceived as white and conducts electricity while maintaining a fixed shape.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "white visual appearance",
      "electrical conductivity",
      "fixed form under normal conditions"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1913 Liberty Head silver dollar circulated in U.S. commerce until the 1930s, valued for its 90% silver content.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope's primary mirror, coated with a thin layer of aluminum and magnesium fluoride, replaced silver's typical reflectivity in space applications.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Silver bromide crystals in Kodak Tri-X photographic film emulsion enabled black-and-white image development through redox reactions.",
      "domain": "chemistry"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "substance.material",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "gold.metal",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "silver"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts (color.visual, metal.element, white.color) to components; interaction sentence synthesizes their joint role. Definition remained correct and minimal."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-silver.metal"
}