Can I train my dog to sniff out silver?

[kcm]

Nope, same silver. Just that it's used for many "medical grade" equipment, instruments and medicines. So, steal the goods, extract the silver and sell it. There may be more to it than that, but if there is, I just wanna continue through life not knowing. Sometimes it's nice to be a blissful idiot!

 

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[Jason in Enid]

Silver is naturally antibiotic (has been used as such since Roman times), so it's not surprising that current medical equipment / medicines has silver as a component.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Ya they would slap a coin on the cut and wrap it.

 

[EVB]

Ya they would slap a coin on the cut and wrap it.

That seems totally sanitary.

Catheters use to be made of silver in the old days along with other medical tools. The tarnish definitely has a smell. Silver nitrate is used to make silver fulminate among other explosives which could be used more practically as a bomb trigger so no surprise that bomb sniffing dogs alert on it.