Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Silver is Element # 47

1.  Hii, i'm Silver. My name is different in different languages, for example in German it's Silber; in Italian it's Argento; in French it's Argent; in Dutch it's Zilver; and in Spanish it's Plata. My name Silver came from the Anglo-Saxon word "Siolflur" meaning "Silver".


2. This is me as a pure element:

3. My natural occuring isotopes are 107 and 109. My most common natural abundance in percentage is 51.839%. And my average atomic mass is 106.90 amu.

4.  I have 47 electrons and i have 5 electron shells.

5. My atomic radius is 160 pm.

6. My properties in pure elemental form are

7. The abundance of Silver in my body is 0 grams. My weight in the Earth's crust is 80 ppb and 0.6 ppb in the universe.

8. I form compounds such as silver bromide, silver iodide, silver oxide.
silver bromide


silver iodide


9. No one knows who discovered me, or how or where i was discovered but we know that i have been around since ancient times.\

10. I'm used for various different things in human society. For example i'm used for jewelry, photography, and electrical contacts.

11. Something interesting about myself  is that Peru and Mexico are the two largest producers of me. I can also stop the growth of bacteria and fungi.

References:

http://www.webelements.com/silver/uses.html
http://www.webelements.com/silver/
http://www.webelements.com/silver/history.html
http://www.webelements.com/silver/geology.html
http://www.webelements.com/silver/biology.html
http://wanttoknowit.com/who-discovered-silver/

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