Silver makes beautiful bling but it's also good for keeping the bacterial bugs away
- Written by Mark Blaskovich, Senior Research Officer, The University of Queensland
Silver has been used to make jewellery for centuries but it's also good at killing bacteria and could be used in new antibiotics.Shutterstock/Santi S
To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements we’re taking a look at some of the elements used by researchers in their work.
Today’s focus is silver, an element...
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