Silver is similar in its physical and chemical properties to its two vertical neighbours in group 11 of the periodic table: See more

Oxides and chalcogenides
Silver and gold have rather low chemical affinities for oxygen, lower than copper, and it is therefore … See more

The word silver appears in Old English in various spellings, such as seolfor and siolfor. It is cognate with Old High German silabar; See more

Silver plays a certain role in mythology and has found various usage as a metaphor and in folklore. The Greek poet Hesiod's Works and Days (lines 109–201) lists different See more

Silver is a rather unreactive metal. This is because its filled 4d shell is not very effective in shielding the electrostatic forces of attraction … See more

Silver was known in prehistoric times: the three metals of group 11, copper, silver, and gold, occur in the elemental form in nature and were probably used as the first primitive forms of See more

The abundance of silver in the Earth's crust is 0.08 parts per million, almost exactly the same as that of mercury. It mostly occurs in sulfide ores, especially acanthite See more