What is silver?
Silver is one of the most common metals used by humans. The chemical symbol for the element, silver, is Ag. Silver’s chemical symbol, Ag, is an abbreviation of the Latin word for silver, ‘argentum.’ The Latin word originates from “argunas”, a Sanskrit word meaning shining. It has an atomic number of forty-seven, meaning that the element has forty-seven protons in its nucleus. Also, the atomic number forty-seven shows that silver is the forty-seventh element on the periodic table. The atomic mass, or average atomic mass, of silver is 107.868 atomic mass units, otherwise commonly rounded to 107.87, 107.9, or 108. On the periodic table, silver is in the eleventh column, or family. This helps classify Silver as a transition metal, meaning it transitions from a nonmetal to a metal. Another common classification for this element is a coinage metal, because it is one metal involved in making some coins, such as the half dollar, and parts of the quarter. Another characteristic of silver on the periodic table is that it is in the fifth row, or period. This shows that silver has five energy levels or energy shells. All of these shells hold electrons, and the last shell holds the valance electrons.
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On the periodic table
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