Soldering each type of solder and alloy has different melting temperatures. The term "silver solder" denotes the type of solder that is used. Some soft solders are "silver-bearing" alloys used to solder silver-plated items. Lead-based solders should not be used on precious metals because the lead dissolves the metal and disfigures it. The distinction between soldering and brazing is based on the melting temperature of the filler alloy. A temperature of 450 °C is usually used as a practical demarcation between soldering and brazing. Soft soldering can be done with a heated iron whereas the other methods typically require a higher
Hard and soft C or an alveolo-palatal , and occurs before not only , and , but also , , and . Another similar system with hard and soft is found in Faroese with the hard being and the soft being , and Turkish where the soft is . The Vietnamese alphabet does not have a hard or a soft per se. However, since it was inherited from European languages, the letter never occurs in "soft positions", i.e. before , and where is used instead, while never occurs elsewhere except in the digraph and a few loanwords. Hồ Chí Minh had proposed a simplified