are vampires weak to silver?
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Vampires are not particularly affected by silver bullets. Traditionally what kills vampires is a wooden steak through the heart.
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The tarnish is actually the result of a chemical reaction between the silver and sulfur-containing substances in the air. The silver is actually combining with sulfur and forming silver sulfide. Silver sulfide is black. When a thin coating of silver sulfide forms on the surface of silver, it darkens the silver.
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As solid silver bars, rounds and coins age, they may tarnish. Tarnish does not affect the metal content of your silver product, but it can have a modest impact on the resale value. Dealers and other buyers will often pay a bit less if the silver does not have its original luster.
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In True Blood, sunlight is usually very dangerous to vampires, but it turns out they can resist the sunlight temporarily if they are pumped with fairy blood. The more traditional caveat that older, more powerful vampires can withstand the sun better is inverted—the older a vampire is, the more quickly he burns up.
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Vampires have blood, which is what's used to fill those erections generally required for sex, in their system only after they've hunted and sucked their victims dry. ... Instead of blood, vampire veins can sometimes flow with venom.
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Silver, which is usually called fine silver, consists of 99.9% pure silver. On the other hand, sterling silver consists of approximately 92.5% silver, and the remaining 7.5% (or even more) is of other metals. ... This is because tarnish is more responsive in alloy metals.
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They are NOT traditional vampires, if that term really means anything anymore (I'm looking at you, Buffy, Twilight, and Harry Dresden), but they absolutely are NOT zombies. Zombies are not intelligent, do not have any form of social interaction, do not fear the sun, and can't become human again.
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In nearly every culture on Earth, the sun's purifying rays destroy evil, so being supernatural creatures, vampires cannot exist under the sun, although in some stories, vampires can live under the sun, but they are defenseless because they can't utilize their occult powers.
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Vampire Lords can assume a bat-like appearance. His true form is demonic, but he can change into human form.
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So some phantoms will turn a lighter colour as they mature, and others will stay the colour they are born. It depends what's in their background. Silver and silver beige phantoms often clear so much they are indistinguishable from their solid counterparts, and can go incognito to dog shows.
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Pure silver is nearly white, lustrous, soft, very ductile, malleable, it is an excellent conductor of heat and electricity. It is not a chemically active metal, but it is attacked by nitric acid (forming the nitrate) and by hot concentrated sulfuric acid.
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It is weak against armor. Plasma damage is good against unarmored opponents (flesh) and can apply the Burn effect (damage over time). Most creatures are weak to Plasma, but Mantisaurs are very resistant to it.
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Weak to steel because fairies are considered small and cute so a block of steel would crush it. Resisted by fire because fairies are considered small and fragile and so they would burn to death in fire.
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Hive are weak to void. Vex are weak to solar and Cabal are weak to arc.
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Yes, tarnishing of silver metal is a chemical change, as opposed to a physical change. Silver metal reacts with sulfur compounds (including minute amounts of Hydrogen Sulfide in the atmosphere) to form Silver Sulfide.
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How Was MG Killed. Presumably that kind of thing can come up in the future as backstory/linked to a vampire character who shows up. Obviously he died with vampire blood in him, so unless he accidentally consumed it, some vampire was involved in his life.
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Silver is not toxic to werewolves; rather, silver is the only metal that can inflict lasting injuries on them (other sorts of bullets bounce off, or go through without leaving a wound, etc.)