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silver
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metallic color tone resembling gray that is a representation of the color of polished silver
Silver is a shiny, grayish metallic color that looks like polished silver metal. It's used in design and art to represent this particular reflective, gray metallic appearance.
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A silver crystal Silver or metallic gray is a color tone resembling gray that is a representation of the color of polished silver.
Silver ingot The visual sensation usually associated with the metal silver is its metallic shine. This cannot be reproduced by a simple solid color because the shiny effect is due to the material's brightness varying with the surface angle to the light source. In addition, there is no mechanism for showing metallic or fluorescent colors on a computer without resorting to rendering software that simulates the action of light on a shiny surface. Consequently, in art and in heraldry, one would typically use a metallic paint that glitters like real silver. A matte gray color could also be used to represent silver.
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