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How does silver kill germs/ sterilize stuff when other metals do not?
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It's called the Oligodynamic effect. Silver binds to thiol groups on enzymes and denatures those enzymes, forming sulfides.

There's no special explanation for this. A lot of metals are toxic in high doses. Silver happens to be especially reactive with bacterial amino acids.