What are the ways to determine Silver has purity of .999?

[w0lvez]

How can you determine if silver is really pure?

Excluding gold and copper, Is it possible to alloy or filled silver to other metal like Tin or Nickel?

 

[w0lvez]

What are the ways to determine that silver is really 999? :?: :?:

 

[rasanders22]

What are the ways to determine that silver is really 999? :?: :?:

X-ray it I belive.

 

[w0lvez]

Besides X-ray fluorescence, Is there any simpler method to test the purity of silver? :?:

 

[4metals]

You can weigh out a sample (precisely) digest it to make silver nitrate, and titrate it with N/10 potassium thiocyanate. Very accurate and quick.

GSP covers the topic completely in his e-book, worth the money for the silver chapter alone.