Why is Silver so magic?!?!...?
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It is a very pure conductive metal. More pure than gold. Indeed.
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The alloying metal in sterling silver is often copper.  As an experiment, try wearing a copper bracelet for a bit and see if you show allergy to that.  Painting the necklace links with clear nail polish, as other responders have suggested, could help.
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I don't have an answer for you except that it has something to do with the softness of the lead, I think.  But that made me laugh, so thanks for that, and thanks for the 2  :-)
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See the two references below about metallic bonds.  The explanation is a little too long to type in this tiny space, but the first reference explains why gold is soft and both of them explain why it is a good conductor of electricity.\n\nTypes of bonding page 4 and Metallic bonds page 5: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-chem-bnd.html\n\nLast section on metallic and hydrogen bonds:  http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-chem-bnd.html
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Because gold is bling-bling bliatch!!
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Wow it is scary reading some of these answers... Take it to a reputable jeweler in your town and they will test it using  a touchstone and several different types of nitric acid to test. If this is done wrong you could ruin your piece of jewelry.... fire is certainly not your answer... gold meltsssssssssssss..most jewelers and I mean jewelers can tell just by looking, though sometimes even they need to test a piece...
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Silver Really Satisfies..\nDevon Knows How They Make Silver So Creamy.\nOnly The Crumbliest Flakiest Silver. \nLife Should Taste As Good As Silver.\nKills All Known Silver - Dead.\nFour out of Five Dentists Recommend Silver.\n\nall i could think of ..Hope it helps
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it's silver. it used to be used in telegraph/telephone wires, but when the poles got knocked down by storms, people would pull out miles of the silver wire and sell it to jewelers and pawn shops. that's why they switched to copper: it is the most conductive, non-precious metal.
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No, it's Ag2S. The 2 is a subscript, denoting 2 Silver atoms to 1 Sulphur atom. Silver has a valency of 1+, while Sulpur has a valency of 2-, hence 2 Silver atoms are needed to balance with 1 Sulphur atom to form a compound. Besides, the equation would make sense then. 2 Silver atoms and 1 Sulphur atom on both sides of the equation, the equation is now balanced. 10 marks please, thank you!
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This page is about silver the chemical element. For the color, see silver (color). See also Silver (disambiguation) \nSilver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag (from the traditional abbreviation for the Latin argentum). A soft white lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal and occurs in minerals and in free form. This metal is used in coins, jewelry, tableware, photography, and in mirrors.\n\nContents [hide]\n1 Notable characteristics \n2 Applications \n3 History \n4 Occurrence \n5 Price \n6 Isotopes \n7 Silver in medicine \n7.1 Health precautions \n7.2 Alternative medicine \n8 References \n9 See also \n10 External links \n10.1 Publications on health effects \n \n\n\n[edit]\nNotable characteristics\n \nA chunk of silverSilver is a very ductile and malleable (slightly harder than gold) univalent coinage metal with a brilliant white metallic luster that can take a high degree of polish. It has the highest electrical conductivity of all metals, even higher than copper, but its greater cost and tarnishability has prevented it from being widely used in place of copper for electrical purposes.\n\nPure silver also has the highest thermal conductivity, whitest color, the highest optical reflectivity (although it is a poor reflector of ultraviolet light), and the lowest contact resistance of any metal. Silver halides are photosensitive and are remarkable for the effect of light upon them. This metal is stable in pure air and water, but does tarnish when it is exposed to ozone, hydrogen sulfide, or air with sulfur in it. The most common oxidation state of silver is +1 (for example, silver nitrate; AgNO3), a few +2 (for example, silver(II) fluoride; AgF2) and +3 compounds (for example, silver(III) persulfate; Ag2(SO5)3) are also known.\n\n[edit]\nApplications\nThe principal use of silver is as a precious metal. Its salts, especially silver nitrate and silver halides, are also widely used in photography (which is the largest single end use of silver). Some other uses for silver are as follows:\n\nElectrical and electronic products, which need silver's superior conductivity, even when tarnished. For example, printed circuits are made using silver paints, and computer keyboards use silver electrical contacts. Silver is also used in high voltage contacts because it is the only metal that will not arc across contacts, hence it is extremely safe. \nMirrors which need superior reflectivity for visible light are made with silver as the reflecting material in a process called silvering. Common mirrors are backed with aluminium. \nSilver has been coined to produce money since 700 BC by the Lydians, in the form of electrum. Later, silver was refined and coined in its pure form. The words for "silver" and "money" are the same in at least 14 languages. \nThe metal is chosen for its beauty in the manufacture of jewelry and silverware, which are traditionally made from the silver alloy known as Sterling silver, which is 92.5% silver. The name of United Kingdom monetary unit 'Pound' originally had the value of one troy pound of sterling silver. \nThe malleability, non-toxicity and beauty of silver make it useful in dental alloys for fittings and fillings. \nSilver's catalytic properties make it ideal for use as a catalyst in oxidation reactions; for example, the production of formaldehyde from methanol and air by means of silver screens or crystallites containing a minimum 99.95 weight-percent silver. Silver (upon some suitable support) is probably the only catalyst available today to convert ethylene to ethylene oxide (later hydrolyzed to ethylene glycol, used for making polyesters)—a very important industrial reaction. \nUsed to make solder and brazing alloys, electrical contacts, and high capacity silver-zinc and silver-cadmium batteries \nSilver sulfide, also known as Silver Whiskers, is formed when silver electrical contacts are used in an atmosphere r
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...\n_The_ First experiment was to observe the reaction when AgNO3 was added to the copper metal. The copper metal was placed in a test tube, (<--no comma needed here) and 0.1 M AgNO3 was added. Just after AgNO3 was added, the (<-- delete the) shiny silver things were observed. Finally, the copper metal was completely changed to shiny silver powder. In the chemical equation, (change to "only the color of")  (the color of only) Ag was shiny silver. Therefore the color of the product matched the color of Ag, and must have been powdered silver. In this experiment, because copper replaced silver in the compound, this was a single replacement reaction.
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Magic. This is the stupidest question I've ever heard.
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Your systemic Ph (acidity) causes this. One reason ancient people revered gold was for it's healing powers. They believed the "green" is actually poisons being removed from your body by the gold. If you don't have these poisons, then the gold will not turn you green. The same reason for wearing copper bracelets.....POSSIBLE don't you think?
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francium. mercury is technicaly not a metal, it just has a low melting point, low metling points do not make it unstable. if that were the case, then oxygen would be VERY unstable ITS ALREADY TURNED INTO VAPOR!!!
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Supposedly it's illegal though (I'm giving away my age)...I remember when there was a big rush up in the price of silver to $50+ per ounce and coin dealers and antique shops were all rusing material to smelters (technical term for those who melt/refine metals).  Nobody was ever arrested for it that I'm aware of.  Numismatic value is determined by the date, mint, and condition of the coin so I'd check the Redbook at the library to see if the coin is worth more than melt (melt is currently at around 6x face for silver).
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Native silver, that is to say pure silver, is very rare.  Most silver is locked up in other minerals.  Galena, the primary lead ore, looks something like silver, but has only 6-10% silver in it.  Silver is found in the sulfide enriched zones of copper mines, in tellurides, and many other ores.  Here's a few rockhound links,  just search Silver or Ag, and/or ores, and big pix will come up.\n\n\nhttp://www.mindat.org\nhttp://www.mining-technoloy.com/projects/index.html\nhttp://www.earthsci.org/teacher/bgasicgeol/resource.html  \n\nand of course the one site every one in earth science must know:\nhttp://www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/table.shtml\n\n\nThere are many tricks, but hardness isn't one of them.  Blowpipe analysis, which you can do, knowing the local geology, making friends with rockhounds, varous acid & base reactivies will all help.  Read eveything on these sites, and maybe a book or three on your area.
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i have never heard of a gray or silver one... now a blue one i do know about!\nand it looks kinda silver