Food grade silver solder is certified free of toxic metals. Typically cadmium is used to improve silver solder's properties, and it is toxic. Look for a NSF approval rather than just "Cadmium Free". One product is Harris Safety-Silv 56. However, I don't think that the 3A standards allow for it's use in food contact applications (gold solders only?).
Flux should have been completely cleaned off before the machinery is put in a food processing environment, so I doubt it matters. I don't think there's such a thing as a NSF approved brazing flux.
Solder is manufactured in hundreds of different grades and compositions for thousands of different applications. Solder that might be described as "Silver solder" is most commonly commercially manufactured in about 50 different compositions with silver contents of up to 40% and is priced accordingly. Silver solder is often used in jewellery making and repair, engineering and many electrical manufacturing processes.
Examples: silver chloride, silver fluoride, silver iodide, silver bromide, silver astatide, silver sulfide, silver nitrate etc. For silver halogenides a method of preparation is the reaction between silver nitrate and a salt containing the halogen.
gold silver bones
silver nitrate
The latin word for silver is argentum, hence why silver is Ag on the periodic table. When silver and chlorine are in an aqueous solution together they form a white precipitate, silver chloride AgCl, thus removing chlorine from solution.
aqueous precipitation
The cholorided part will have a grey/purple to it. Some people describe it as a charcoal color.
Silver chloride is insoluble in water; filtration is a simple method.
sterling silver
Gold & Silver are different because they have different numbers of protons and electrons in their atoms.
No, silver and chrome are different elements
Sterling silver is different than silver plated because it is solid silver, meaning that the silver is in every part of the object, although it can have different elements mixed in. Silver plated is just a coat of silver on the outside of varying thicknesses.