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What are silver olympic medals made of?

Posted at: 2015-05-07 
Plastic

Silver

And Ironically, gold medals are made the same exact as the silver, but then painted over with a small amount of gold

A metal called silver

Olympic medals are actually Jewish gelt coins. Chocolate covered by a thin foil wrapper. That's why the athletes always bite them at the medal ceremony. They're a very tasty snack.

A metal called silver ( Ag)

-?The London 2012 Olympic medals weigh 375-400g, are 85mm in diameter and 7mm thick.

-?The gold medal is made up of 92.5% silver and 1.34% gold, with the remainder copper (a minimum of 6g of gold).

-?The silver medal is made up of 92.5% silver, with the remainder copper.

-?The bronze medal is made up of 97.0% copper, 2.5% zinc and 0.5% tin.

Silver? Cant believe Micheal Phelps won Silver this year.....

http://wordpress.mrreid.org/2012/07/27/c...

I had one of those gold ones, but I took the foil off before I bit it. Much better that way

Silver......

One direction <3

Mostly copper I believe

*face palm*