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The make-up of Silver?
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I've looked everywhere online to find the answer to this question. it seems that no one or site has the answer to it. My question is What makes up silver?
Kathy Y.student - Houston, Texas, United States of America
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You haven't told us why this arouses your curiousity, or what grade you are in, Kathy, and it is usually difficult to answer a question when it has no context and when we have no idea what terms and concepts the person who asked the question will understand and won't understand.
There are about 100 materials that are not mixtures or compounds of anything else, but are the building block materials from which all other mixtures and compounds are made. These are called "the elements" and silver is one of them.
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 Ted Mooney, P.E. finishing.com Brick, New Jersey |
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This is what silver is:
Symbol: Ag
Atomic number: 47
Group number: 11
Mass: 107.868
Density @ 293 K: 10.5 g/cm3
Atomic volume: 10.3 cm3/mol
Melting Point: 961.93 C (1235.1 K)
Boiling Point: 2212 C (2428 K)
Heat of fusion: 11.30 kJ/mol
Heat of vaporization: 250.580 kJ/mol
Number of Protons/Electrons: 47
Number of neutrons: 61
Classification: Transition Metal
Crystal Structure: Face-centered Cubic
Color: silver
Hardness: 3.25 mohs
Characteristics: soft, ductile, tarnishes I did a Google search on
"silver the element" and the first link had the preceding info.
- Naperville, Illinois
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No, You have it all wrong! What makes up Gold. Who makes up Silver. (By the way I think He's on first) God bless Abbott and Costello.
Ciaron Murphy- Great Britain
I just thought I'd ask. And I just thought I'd tell you.