A lustrous, soft white metal, silver is one of the elements that make up the Earth. Silver is found in nature as an elemental metal in its metallic form and combined with other elements such as sulfide, chloride and nitrate. Pure silver has a bright metallic white-gray color; silver nitrate and silver chloride are powdery white in color, while silver sulfide and silver oxide are dark gray to black.
The native Polistes aurifer. (golden paper wasp) frequently. overwinters in attics of homes. The queens emerge during the. first warm days of spring (as. early as March and April), select. a nest site, and build a small. paper nest in which they lay.
1 The finished product can be as soft as kleenx or as durable as Kraft paper, sometimes called butcher's paper.  Other plants such as cotton and linen can also provide fibers of suitable nature. These fibers are often used to make very high quality paper such as is used in paper currency. High quality paper often has content noted as containing so much rag this refers to the proportion of linen and cotton fiber in with the wood fiber.</li><li>Novelty papers are often made of unusual fibers.