There’s no more denying that summer has arrived. Temperatures are climbing, which means donning shorts, swimming over weekends, and cooling down with frozen treats. While heat is on your mind, we want to share a neat trick with you!
Identifying a precious metal can be done in many ways, often with inexpensive equipment at home. One of the easiest home tests allows you to see if a silver-colored metal is actually made of silver.
Silver is a great conductor of both electricity and thermal energy, the latter of which makes it easy to test the metal. If you’re wondering if a coin, round, or bar is made of real silver, simply place an ice cube on top of it. Real silver will cause the ice to begin melting immediately, at a much faster rate than would be caused by most other room temperature objects. This happens because silver rapidly transfers heat to the ice.
If only we could transfer heat away from our bodies during the hottest time of year! What’s your favorite way of staying cool during summer? Let us know in the comments section below to enter our July giveaway. That’s right, entering is as easy as leaving a comment! Make sure your comment is sent in by July 23, 2017. One winner will be randomly selected on July 24, 2017 to receive a Red Horse of War silver AND copper round.
Best of luck and happy summer!
Congrats to our July winner, Miriam L! Please check back next month to try your luck in Provident’s next giveaway.
Run cool water over the vein in my wrists. I learned this in the Army. I used it later as a machinist during hot weather.
Ice cold fruit smoothie
Jumping in my silver pool!
Swim in Maui
Sitting around in my grandmother’s back porch turned-greenhouse with the ceiling fan on used to be the best way to spend a summer day many years ago. Reading books, listening to music or dramatized audiobooks, watching the sunset, and just listening to the crickets at night was just relaxing and surprisingly cool thanks to the mesh windows and fan. Nowadays? Drinking boba at a bakery isn’t bad.
A cold glass of wine
I make sure my home and car air conditioners are at peak performance and I stay in one or the other.
Making frequent trips to the frozen section of my nearest grocery store.
We are off to the Oregon coast to play with the grandbabies. Temp high is estimated at 70 while we are there for 10 days… thank you to customer service for holding onto my couldn’t resist orders until we return to the 98 degree heat here and can receive them.
Take a trip to Alaska and spent time with grandkids.
A cold shower in the morning, and again when I get home from work. Also lots of ice cream!
Mojito
When the mercury hits close to 100 I head for my home river and fly fish by wet wading. Morning noon or evening are all good. Just wading shoes, shorts, shirt, hat, vest and rod and away I go. Bring some water also unless you want to risk getting Giardia by drinking the cool, clear river water.
Chill at a water park!!!
When the Silver goes down we’ll be grooving!
Drink iced tea and stay inside in the air conditioned rooms. Enjoy the outdoors in the evening when the birds are chirping.
Laying down on the cool hardwoods under the ceiling fan! Ahhh
Catching up on movies and popcorn in an air conditioned theatre.
Swimming in the pool.
After a hot summer day I would cool down by drinking a nice cold glass of iced tea while kicked back on my couch.
I really love my silver coins and I also collecting the copper coins. Bring on the Silver Red Horse.
Wear Pima cotton and enjoy some shade!
Silver is the new black
Evenings on the deck in the shade with a cool breeze.
Nice ac a some silver cool you down
Ice cream is my favorite way to stay cool. Spook good.
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Let the AC run full blast.