Why does silver tarnish? The labour'involved in keeping household silver bright is one of the bugbears of housewives. It is the one reason why silver cigarette cases are not popular with men. The reaiqn is that silver tarnishes when it combines with sulphur to form silver-sulphide, which is black. In the air are small quantities of sulphur compounds sufficient to tarnish silver, especially in foggy weather. The coating of silver sulphide which is consequently formed has to be artificially removed. Ifegs and mapy other articles of food contain sulphur compounds,, which act. upon silver spons in just the «ame way. ■ •
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 58, 9 March 1928, Page 12
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