Light causes a reduction of the silver salt to silver metal.

Because of their affinity for silver salts, these fibers are called argyrophilic.

Talbot placed the lace on a piece of paper he had sensitized with silver salts, then put them both in the sun.

Another method is by the reduction of sodium nitrite to give the silver salt:

Using a translucent vellum support, the paper was prepared with a coating of silver salts.

Over a restaurant lunch, she casually pockets the silver salt and pepper shakers.

In black-and-white photographic film there is usually one layer of silver salts.

Following development, the silver is converted back to silver salts in the bleach step.

Other silver salts can be used but the acetate gives the best yield.

Photography was a nineteenth-century chemical system for recording information using light-sensitive silver salts.