Silver is a whitish precious metal and has been used since about 4000 BC for various purposes such as money, silverware, jewelry and so on. Silver is measured in troy ounces. A troy ounce is 31.10348 grams.
Food Desert Locator from the USDA. GoodFood World Staff, May 4th, 2011. The official definition of a food desert is a low income census tract where at least a third of the residents are a mile from a supermarket or large grocery store.
Does this turn of phrase have anything to do with dessert (âa sweet food eaten at the end of a mealâ) or desert (âa dry land with few plants and little rainfallâ)? In fact, the phrase employs neither of these words. Instead, it uses a completely unrelated word that happens to be pronounced like the word for sweets and spelled like the one for a dry place: desert, meaning âreward or punishment deserved or earned by oneâs