47 · Ag
Silver
Known since antiquity, with no discovery year.
Identity
- Atomic number
- 47
- Symbol
- Ag
- Canonical name
- Silver
- Category
- transition metal
- Group
- 11
- Period
- 5
- Block
- d
- Other names
- argentum
Properties
These quantities come from the Periodic Table JSON compilation. They have not yet been checked, one by one, against CIAAW atomic weights or NIST measurements. A value marked estimated is not a measurement.
- Atomic mass
- 107.86822 u
- Electron configuration
- [Kr] 4d10 5s1
- Electrons per shell
- 2, 8, 18, 18, 1
- Standard state
- solid
- Density
- 10.49 g/cm³
- Melting point
- 1,234.93 K
- Boiling point
- 2,435 K
- Electronegativity
- 1.93 Pauling
- First ionization energy
- 731 kJ/mol
- Electron affinity
- 125.862 kJ/mol
History
Antiquity
Silver was worked in antiquity. No discovery year can be assigned.
Etymology
- Theme
- color
- Language
- latin
- Root
- argentum
- Meaning
- silver, the bright metal