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We learned about the malleability of certain metals, while at school. See this in action, with silver, and relate it to the silver foil seen on your Indian sweets and which you are supposed to eat! Silver foil can be made either mechanically or manually. But in Hyderabad it is made in a traditional way, by manual hammering. A small piece of silver is taken and continuously hammered until it becomes thin layer. The thickness of silver foils varies from 0.2 microns to 10 microns. Silver foil production in Hyderabad started long back in 18th century during the reign of Mahboob Ali Pasha, the sixth Nizam of Asif Zahi dynasty. Silversmiths from several areas including Pembarti, Pachees Bazaar (Siddipet) and other areas of Deccan migrated to Hyderabad to do this work. You can find most of the mi
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