Element Silver (Ag), Group 11, Atomic Number 47, d-block, Mass 107.868. Sources, facts, uses, scarcity (SRI), podcasts, alchemical symbols, videos and images.

Silver is a member of Group 11 of the Periodic Table. It is stable to oxygen and water but dissolves in sulfuric and nitric acids. It is slowly attacked by sulfur compounds in air, forming a black sulfide layer.

Discover more about the uses and properties of the element silver, by watching videos brought to you by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Cadmium sits right below zinc on the periodic table and therefore shares many of its same chemical properties. In the environment it is distributed nearly everywhere we find zinc and therefore when we mine zinc, we consequently mine cadmium.

Explore the different alchemical symbols for gold and learn how the alchemists viewed this element, in this Visual Elements Periodic Table resource from the Royal Society of Chemistry

Interactive periodic table with element scarcity (SRI), discovery dates, melting and boiling points, group, block and period information.

For starters, there are only three metallic elements that are not silver-coloured. Two are well-known and fairly obvious - gold and copper. The third most people would never guess, it's caesium.

Chemistry in its element: Listen to the exciting story behind each periodic table element in this podcast collection from Chemistry World

Explore the different alchemical symbols for silver and learn how the alchemists viewed this element, in this Visual Elements Periodic Table resource from the Royal Society of Chemistry

A photon of light hitting the negative nitrate anion frees an electron, which ultimately combines with the positive silver ions to make neutral silver metal, darkening the surface of the material.