Why is the symbol of silver written as Ag?
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Silver's atomic symbol is Ag, which seems to bear little relation to the name of the element. In fact, Ag is short for argentums, the Latin word for silver. The word "silver" is from the Anglo-Saxon word seolfor
The first huge silver strike in the United States was Nevada's Comstock Lode, first discovered in 1857 by two brothers who died before they could reap the benefits of their claim. According to
, $305,779,612.48 of silver was pulled from the ground between 1859 and 1992.
There's no doubt about it; silver is pretty, and humans have long thought so. In February 2014, archaeologists uncovered a trove of silver,
, at a 3,200-year-old site in Israel.
Silver has antimicrobial properties, but that doesn't make it a good option for home remedies. Homeopathy providers sometimes sell colloidal silver for a variety of health complaints, but drinking the stuff has a weird side effect:
It turns the skin blue
Leave the good silver in a drawer between Christmases and it's likely to tarnish. They're coated with transparent lacquers. Researchers are working to create nanometer-thick coatings
that can replace the current hand-painted lacquers with something thinner, completely invisible and longer lasting.