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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 2002. Contaminant trends in US National Estuarine Research Reserves. Silver Springs (MD) NOAA. 

Currently, Yardney is in continuous production of secondary lithium-ion batteries, primary and secondary silver-zinc batteries and primary reserve silver-zinc batteries used on various Department of Defense applications. The primary battery applications include the Navy s Trident IID5 Fleet Ballistic Missile program, the Minuteman III ICBM, and primary power for the MK 21 re-entry vehicle. In 2012, the Trident II missile has achieved 143 successful test launches since 1989—a record unmatched by any other large ballistic missile or space launch vehicle. The most prominent Li-ion batteries made by Yardney have powered the Mars Explorer Rover missions (Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity), the USAF B-2 Bomber and Global Hawk aircraft, and the US Navy Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS). One of the future applications for Yardney s Li-ion batteries is NASA s Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV). 

Deposits. Selenium forms natural compounds with 16 other elements. It is a main constituent of 39 mineral species and a minor component of 37 others, chiefly sulfides. The minerals are finely disseminated and do not form a selenium ore. Because there are no deposits that can be worked for selenium recovery alone, there are no mine reserves. Nevertheless, the 1995 world reserves, chiefly in nonferrous metals sulfide deposits, are ca 70,000 metric tons and total resources are ca 130,000 t (24). The principal resources of the world are in the base metal sulfide deposits that are mined primarily for copper, zinc, nickel, and silver, and to a lesser extent, lead and mercury, where selenium recovery is secondary. 

Resources. World resources of silver are estimated to be about half a million tons. However, only about 250,000 metric tons are considered economically recoverable reserves. These are associated with ores of copper, gold, lead, and 2inc, and extraction depends on the economic recovery of those metals. Canada and the CIS vie for the greatest reserves of silver in the ground. 

Like selenium, tellurium minerals, although widely disseminated, do not form ore bodies. Hence, there are no deposits that can be mined for tellurium alone, and there are no formally stated reserves. Large resources however, are present in the base-metal sulfide deposits mined for copper, nickel, gold, silver, and lead, where the recovery of tellurium, like that of selenium, is incidental. 

New technology and development of brine reserves are increasing each year in the United States and abroad. This affects the uses and price of brine chemicals. For example, development of the Salar de Atacama in Chile in the 1980s as the largest producer of brine lithium in the world has affected lithium production and prices worldwide. Lithium production from Seades Lake brine has been discontinued, and the Silver Peak operation in Nevada is in a slow production decline caused by weaker brine grades. 

In Moroccan deposits, cobalt occurs with nickel in the forms of smaltite, skuttemdite, and safflorite. In Canadian deposits, cobalt occurs with silver and bismuth. Smaltite, cobaltite, erythrite, safflorite, linnaeite, and skuttemdite have been identified as occurring in these deposits. AustraUan deposits are associated with nickel, copper, manganese, silver, bismuth, chromium, and tungsten. In these reserves, cobalt occurs as sulfides, arsenides, and oxides. 

Battery systems of complex design and structure using—at least for one electrode—expensive materials are (for economic reasons) mainly conceived as storage batteries. Primary (and "reserve") versions of the zinc/silver oxide battery [(-) Zn/KOH/AgO (+)] — as a first example—are only used in particular cases where the question of cost is not crucial, e.g., for marine [26-28] and space applications [29]. 

Zinc-silver oxide batteries as primary cells are known both as button cells, e.g., for hearing aids, watches, or cameras, and for military applications, usually as reserve batteries. Since the latter after activation have only a very short life (a few seconds to some minutes), a separation by cellulo-sic paper is generally sufficient. 

Today, however, pure gold and silver are too scarce and valuable to be used as coins. The United States government keeps huge bars of these metals in vaults, as a reserve. Only copper, the most abundant of the three, is still in daily use as money in the United States. 

Silver has the symbol Ag because its Latin name is argentium, itself derived from the Greek for money, argu-rion. The Spanish colonized parts of South America in the 16th century. They named it Argentina (dog-Latin for silver land ) when they discovered its vast reserves of silver. 

Silver sulfadiazine, a sulfonamide, is used for the management of infected burns. The occurrence of sulfonamide hypersensitivity is a serious risk though and this agent should be reserved for selected cases. Its activity is probably based on the bactericidal action of silver which is released but absorbed only to a negligible extend. The sulfonamide is well absorbed and appreciable blood levels are reached when large areas are treated. 

Various problems related to the construction and performances of these batteries, such as changes in materials of membranes and additives both to the electrode materials and to the electrolyte, were studied in recent years. Some instability of the silver electrode during such storage period and the ways of avoiding these difficulties were studied and discussed [347]. Reserve activated silver oxide-zinc cells were constructed [348] with synthetic Ag20 and Pb-treated zinc electrodes were produced by a nonelec-trolytic process. The cells were tested before and after thermally accelerated aging. 

Transfer 150 ml of the silver nitrate reagent to each of two 250-ml glass-stoppered Erlenmeyer flasks. Place the flasks in a suitable ice bath until, die temperature of the contents Is 32°to 39.2 F (0° to 4°C). Add 7 to 9 drops of the mixed indicator to each flask and, if necessary, neutralize to a gray-green color with 0.02N sodium hydroxide if. acid or with 0.02N nitric acid if alkaline. Reserve one of the flasks for the blank and into the second flask pour 0 ml of propellant. Compare the color of the sample with that of the blank. A purple color in the sample solution indicates... 

Electronic Time Fuze. Development of an electronic time fuze which would be substantially more accurate than exisitng time fuzes is described in the report of Texas Instruments, Inc (Ref). A programmable digital circuit is driven by. an oscillator based on a Picatinny Arsenal design. As power source, two types of battery, a silver-zinc primary battery and a reserve battery which uses ammonia as the electrolyte, were tried. A detailed manufacturing plan is included as an appendix... 

Generally speaking, those minerals which are rich in silver, and contain large amounts of gangue of a sili-cious nature, when subjected to the preoeding treatment, give a matt which still retains a portion of the noble metal, and on that account is reserved to go through a second fusion. 

The general character of Neumann s chemistry is practical rather than theoretical. It describes plainly and in considerable detail the occurrences, properties and preparations of a large number of mineral, animal, and vegetable products, and the value which it must have possessed at that time as a condensed encyclopedia of chemical facts is manifest. Neumann apparently accepts the phlogiston hypothesis without reservation. In the discussion of metals, which he divides into perfect metals—gold and silver imperfect metals—lead, copper, iron and tin and semimetals (not malleable)—mercury, bismuth, zinc, antimony, arsenic, he has this to say under the head of imperfect metals 7... 

Zinc-silver oxide reserve batteries have application as power sources for various systems in manned and unmanned space vehicles. 

In previous sections of this chapter, magnesium anodes have been considered as replacements for zinc in Leclanche and air-depolarized cells. In sea water-activated reserve batteries, magnesium anodes are coupled with either silver chloride, lead chloride, manganese dioxide or, occasionally,... 

Fig. 3.33 Discharge curve for sea water-activated magnesium-silver chloride reserve cell...

The silver-copper phase diagram. Reprinted with permission of ASM International from L. A. Willey, Metals Handbook, vol. 8, 8th ed. (Materials Park, OH ASM, 1973), p. 259. All rights reserved, www.asminternational.org. 

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