Editing Periodic Table of Dragons (section)

==Silver 47==
The Silver dragon is one of the most feared of all dragons. Known as the 'Hammers of the Gods', these creatures possess the strongest lightning breath of dragon kind, able to scar any dragon save Poloniums. Even Osmiums and Tungstens fear a Silver’s wrath.

With their wiry bodies, they are often mistaken for lightning bolts when moving quickly, which they rarely aren't. 

Highly social, they frequently groom each other to remove the tarnish that accumulates on their scales. This preening leads to an unusually visible social hierarchy: the shinier a Silver dragon’s scales, the farther up the ladder they are. Lower ranking members have duller scales, and the lowest develop spots of black. Exiled Silvers are entirely blackened, though some stronger renegades have bright outlines on their scale edges via sheer friction from intense physical activities. 

Their brilliant blue lightning breath is powerful enough to blast through stone with startling ease; a powerful Silver’s breath pierced through a fortified castle from end to end, blasting through no less than 20 meters of stone wall in the process. Even viewing a Sliver’s breath can cause permanent blindness. The Silvers themselves are immune to other dragons' lightning save their own.

Silver dragon scales are relatively soft (though harder than a Gold's), so they rely heavily on speed as their defense. Few creatures are as fast as a Silver in flight, and none can reliably predate them. Would be Silver dragon hunters rely heavily on trapping or cornering Silvers in some manner. Silvers are susceptible to heat, though their scales efficiently diffuse heat throughout their bodies, preventing severe heat injury from anything short of direct sustained flame breaths.

The scales of a Silver are highly valued by alchemists for creating daguerreotype plates, high-quality mirrors and lenses, and as a catalyst for producing compounds from other dragons' scales. The medically-minded alchemists count silver tinctures (nitrates) among their bread and butter items.

Silver scale and bone are used in masterwork musical instruments, producing a soothing mellow sound  only matched by alloys produced from specialized master alchemists, but the Silvers guard this craft closely.