Here are some fun facts about the great and beautiful element, silver
- The current cost of silver is $120 per 100 grams of pure silver
- Here are some translations of silver:
- German- silber
- French- argent
- Croatian- srebro
- Italian- argento
- Spanish- plata
- Silver is one of the 11 elements with irregular symbols. The chemical symbol for silver is Ag even though silver doesn't have an a or a g in it's chemical name. Ag comes from the word argentum, which is what silver used to be called. The name silver comes from the old english word, seolfor.
- Silver has two stable isotopes, 107 and 109
- Silver is a solid in room temperate
- Silver's density is 10.5 grams per centimeter cubed
- Silver was the 5th element discovered