Silver


 * //Silver// **



= ** Key Chemistry points: ** = = =
 * ** Symbol: Ag **
 * ** Atomic number: 4 **
 * ** Atomic mass: 107.868 amu **
 * ** Density: 10.49 g/cm3 **
 * ** Melting point: 961.78 °C **
 * ** Boiling point: 2162 ° C **
 * ** Group : 11 **
 * ** Isolation or Extraction: We get Silver from the USA, Austrailia, Peru and Mexico. From there we get the silver in its ores or rocks that have silver in them. **
 * ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Appearence: It is white, soft and has a lustrous shine that is also known as silver. **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Room Temperature and Pressure (rpt): <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Silver is a solid at room temperature. **

= **Some Common and Stable Isotopes:** =


 * 105-Ag ||
 * 106m-Ag ||
 * 107-Ag ||
 * 108m-Ag ||
 * 109-Ag ||
 * 111-Ag ||


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Common compounds:<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> **Silver forms compounds that are most solluable in water.**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**Silver Sulfide.**
<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">When the temperature and pressure rises so does the oxygen absorbtion. **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">How reactive is it?: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Silver doesn't react with water. **

This is a video stating facts about Silver from [] =media type="youtube" key="l_p-WOafjJQ?rel=0" height="360" width="640"= =<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">History of Silver ** =

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">When silver was first discovered, it was in the period of the Bronze Age. Silver was all over Europe and Asia and was relatively easy to find. But the issue was what was in the ores. What people soon found out was that poisonous lead was in the ores. So when the miners started trying to find the silver, they would become poisoned because of all the lead. Most men had did not want this to happen so they hired slaves to do the job. ** ====== = = =<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Importance to Health and Medical Uses ** = ==<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Silver is very important to health. It is used in many ways. For example, it is used for toothaches to leave no trace of root canals. It also is used for sore, runny eyes, and conjuctivitis because it is absorbed as an antisetic.** **Silver is important for skin problems because it can be absorbed as an antiseptic too.** == = = =<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">** In Jewelry ** =

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=<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">In Warfare = ==<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Silver can be used for warfare. People use silver fulminate because it is very explosive and dangerous. The compound is extremely sensitive. If you put a piece if graph paper on the silver fulminate, it will explode. Also, Silver was used in World War I for antibiodics. ==

[[image:cdsgrade8/silver_fulminate.png caption="This is a diagram of Silver Fulminate from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Silver-fulminate-cyclic-hexamer-from-trigonal-xtal-3D-balls-A.png "]]
= = = **Technology** = =**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Silver is used in technology in very different ways. Some are very life changing such as the silver coated spacecraft called Magellan. It is used in airports and space shuttles. **= ==<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> ==


 * =**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">The word silver comes from the Anglo-Saxon word called seolfor which means silver. **=
 * =**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Silver is one of the Noble Metals including Gold, and Platinum. **=
 * =**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Silver is a transition metal. **=
 * =**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Silver is one of the rarest elements. **=
 * =**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">The metal of the moon is silver **=
 * =**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%;">In ancient times, in several countries, silver was worth more than gold. **=
 * =**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 110%;">No one knows who discovered silver. **=

This is a video of some scientists doing some experiments with Silver Nitrate. It is from periodicvideos.com media type="custom" key="11538804"media type="youtube" key="pPd5qAb4J50" height="360" width="640"

=**Pictures of Silver:**= = =





=<span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Sources: = [] [] [|jpl.nasa.gov] [|bluediamondring-s.com] [|sterlingsilverpro.com] [|www.wikipedia.org] [] [] [|www.historyforkids.org/learn/science/mining/silver.htm] [|realhistories.org.uk] [|chemicalelements.com] [|buysilver.devhub.com]