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I need some fun facts about the element silver.? |
Here is what I have so far: Silver is the 47th element on the periodic table. It has 61 neutrons, 47 protons, and 47 electrons. Silver is a transition metal. The symbol for silver is Ag. The letters A and G come from the latin word for silver, Argentum. The main use for silver is in jewelry, silverware, and some coins. It is also used in photography, and mirrors. Metal tarnishes when it is exposed to ozone in the atmosphere. Ozone has increased through the years, so silver tarnishes faster now. Out of all the metals, silver is the best conductor of electricity. There has been 1,740,000 metric tons of silver discovered so far. Silver has been around since prehistoric times. Please help! Silver is a metal, codenamed Ag. This is because it makes people aggressive, though not as aggressive as gold, codenamed Au because it makes people go aughhhh! when they're being tortured to reveal where the chest of buried pirate treasure is. Some scholars claim that it comes from the Latin argentum, but this is doubtful, because it would be abbreviated as "Ar", and only pirates say that. Sometimes there's silver and diamonds and emeralds and rubies in the treasure, too, depending on what the pirates raided. Sometimes, if you find a treasure of the gay pirates, all you get is really nice evening gowns in unfeminine sizes. Also, silver bullets can be used to shoot werewolves. They can be used to shoot people and normal wolves too, and just about anything else, but lead ones are cheaper, so make sure you're shooting at a werewolf (or that someone else is paying for the bullets). It is said that they are equally effective against Battle Pelicans, though these claims are unverified. The Lone Ranger used to shoot silver bullets, didn't he? You don't hear a lot about werewolves in the Wild West but they were obviously more of a problem than people liked to admit. You hear about ghost towns but not vampires or werewolves. FACT All teaspoons are made of Silver! i have a lot of pure silver necklaces that is a fact Before 1965, all US quarters and dimes, along with half dollars and dollar coins, were produced with 90% silver. They were produced like this because silver alone is very malleable. However, Congress passed a law that stopped producing coins with silver because it was becoming too expensive for them. Once this law passed the silver coins quicly disappeared from circulation. Silver is also used in dentistry and in medicine. Along with being the best conductor of electricity, silver is also one of the best thermal conductors. Silver is often found in nature mixed with copper and other elements. It is very rarely found alone. Thus, if one were to melt about 5 tons of the old pre-1982 copper Lincoln pennies, one can also extract a little bit of silver. Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag (Latin: argentum). Silver has the highest electrical and thermal conductivity for a metal. Most silver is produced as a by-product of copper, gold, lead, and zinc mining. Silver has long been valued as a precious metal and used in currency, ornaments and jewelry, as well as utensils (hence the term silverware). Silver is used in photographic film, electrical contacts, and mirrors. Elemental silver is also used to catalyze chemical reactions. Silver has certain antimicrobial activity. In the past, dilute solutions of silver nitrate were used as disinfectants. The consumption of large amounts of silver can lead to a darkening of the skin known as argyria. Silver is a very ductile and malleable (slightly harder than gold) univalent coinage metal with a brilliant white metallic luster that can take a high degree of polish. Commercial grade fine silver is at least 99.9% pure silver and purities greater than 99.999% are available. Mexico is the world's largest silver producer. Sterling silver is 92.5 % silver, alloyed usually with copper. Jewelry and silverware are traditionally made from this. The name of United Kingdom monetary unit 'Pound' originally had the value of one troy pound of sterling silver. Silver has been coined to produce money since 700 BC by the Lydians, in the form of electrum. Later, silver was refined and coined in its pure form. The words for "silver" and "money" are the same in at least 14 languages. The largest single end use[citation needed] of silver is photography, in the form of silver nitrate and silver halides are widely used in photography 鈥?30 % of US production is used here. Silver is also used to make solder and brazing alloys. The Phoenicians used to store water, wine, and vinegar in silver bottles to prevent spoiling. In the early 1900s people would put silver dollars in milk bottles to prolong the milk's freshness. Samsung has introduced washing machines with a final rinse containing silver ions to provide several days of antibacterial protection in the clothes. The malleability, non-toxicity and beauty of silver make it useful in dental alloys for fittings and fillings. In India, foods can be found decorated with a thin layer of silver, known as Varak. Silver is currently about 1/50th the price of gold by mass, and approximately 70 times more valuable than copper. Silver in European Folklore has long been traditionally believed to be an antidote to various maladies and fictional monsters. Notably, silver was believed to be a repellant against vampires (this primarily originates from its holy connotations; also, mirrors were originally polished silver, and as such, vampires allegedly cannot be seen in them because they are wicked) and it was believed that a werewolf, in his bestial form, could only be killed by a weapon or bullet made of silver, and was equally effective against vampires, as described in Eastern European folklore. This has given rise to the term "silver bullet," which is used to describe things that very effectively deal with one specific problem. The Lone Ranger of radio serials, comic strips, and some TV programs leaves a silver bullet as a calling card. In Christian doctrine, Christ's disciple Judas Iscariot is infamous for having, according to the New Testament, taken a bribe of thirty pieces of silver from religious leaders in Jerusalem to turn Jesus Christ over to the Romans. LIFE Fun facts. After early attemps at brain surgery, a silver coin was often beaten to shape to the skull and patch the hole. The antibacteria characterists helped to prevent infections. Until very recently, dil. solutions of silver nitrate were used to keep babies eyes from catching the sexually transmitted diseases that would have come from the mother during delivery. Many cases of blindness were prevented. Old mirrors made with silver are said to give a 'warmer' view due to a little less reflection of the 'harsh' part of the blue spectrum that modern aluminized mirrors reflect. The principal corrosion of polished silver is from the contact with sulfur gasses. That's why it usually stinks to polish silverware. The sulfides/sulphites are released. The use of silver in Silvadene ointment has saved thousands of people from burn scars and infections. If you use Silvadene after a severe sunburn, expect to turn black! Many water filters are treated with silver to keep bacteria from growing. Silver containing solders are one of the few that will alloy to stainless steel at reasonable cost and reasonable temperatures. Kodak employed the largest group of blind people in the country in one location to process the silver containing films they sold. Non-blind people couldn't hack being in the total darkness. A typical ball of silver recovered from the photo developing department at Kodak was almost as big as a medicine ball. It was as much as profit minded as to control polution that they recovered it. That much silver down the drain would have killed the normal bacteria used in the sewerage plant. Silver and a popular gas mix to produce one of the most unstable explosives in the world. Most who have tried to make it, regret it. Years of storing strange facts for just such occasions as this. Also, Kodak would frquently send out bits of info for Sunday papers and the like for the greater Rochester area. |
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