Symbol
Ag
Group Number
11
Rank: 7 (Overall)
0
17
👆🏻
Period Number
5
Rank: 3 (Overall)
2
7
👆🏻
Block
d block
Element Family
Transition Metal
CAS Number
7440224
Rank: 58 (Overall)
7429905
54386242
👆🏻
Space Group Name
Fm_ 3m
Space Group Number
225.00
Rank: 3 (Overall)
11
276
👆🏻
Interesting Facts
- It is the most reflective element.
- Silver is the second most ductile metal after Gold.
- It is also used in Dentistry as a dental alloys for clips and crowning.
Sources
Earth's crust, Found in Minerals, Ores of metals
History
Who Discovered
-
Discovery
Before 5000 BC
Abundance
Abundance In Universe
0.00 %
Rank: 27 (Overall)
0
0.11
👆🏻
Abundance In Sun
0.00 %
Rank: 26 (Overall)
0
0.1
👆🏻
Abundance In Meteorites
0.00 %
Rank: 38 (Overall)
0
22
👆🏻
Abundance In Earth's Crust
0.00 %
Rank: 47 (Overall)
1E-37
8.1
👆🏻
Abundance In Oceans
0.00 %
Rank: 19 (Overall)
0
1.1
👆🏻
Abundance In Humans
0.00 %
Rank: 24 (Overall)
0
1.4
👆🏻
Uses & Benefits
- Silver is mainly used for Jewelry and show piece.
- It is used for manufacturing high quality mirrors due to its reflectivity property.
Industrial Uses
Chemical Industry, Clothing Industry, Electrical Industry
Medical Uses
Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Industry
Other Uses
Alloys, Bullion, Coinage, Jewellery, Sculptures, Statues
Biological Properties
Toxicity
Non Toxic
Present in Human Body
✔
✘
60% - Transition Metals Metals have it !
In Blood
0.00 Blood/mg dm-3
Rank: 29 (Overall)
0
1970
👆🏻
In Bone
0.44 p.p.m.
Rank: 24 (Overall)
0
170000
👆🏻
Melting Point
961.93 °C
Rank: 47 (Overall)
-38.83
3410
👆🏻
Boiling Point
2,212.00 °C
Rank: 51 (Overall)
0
5660
👆🏻
Appearance
Physical State
Solid
Color
Silvery White
Luster
Metallic
Hardness
Mohs Hardness
2.50
Rank: 15 (Overall)
0.2
8.5
👆🏻
Brinell Hardness
251.00 MPa
Rank: 45 (Overall)
0.14
3490
👆🏻
Vickers Hardness
229.00 MPa
Rank: 49 (Overall)
0
3920
👆🏻
Speed of Sound
2,680.00 m/s
Rank: 48 (Overall)
818
16200
👆🏻
Optical Properties
Refractive Index
0.16
Rank: 51 (Overall)
0.155
3.41
👆🏻
Reflectivity
97.00 %
Rank: 1 (Overall)
5
97
👆🏻
Allotropes
✔
✘
6% - Transition Metals Metals
α Allotropes
-
β Allotropes
-
γ Allotropes
-
Chemical Formula
Ag
Isotopes
Known Isotopes
36
Rank: 3 (Overall)
0
38
👆🏻
Electronegativity
Pauling Electronegativity
1.93
Rank: 10 (Overall)
0
2.6
👆🏻
Sanderson Electronegativity
1.83
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0.22
2.56
👆🏻
Allred Rochow Electronegativity
1.42
Rank: 19 (Overall)
0.86
1.9
👆🏻
Mulliken-Jaffe Electronegativity
1.47
Rank: 28 (Overall)
0.62
2.48
👆🏻
Allen Electronegativity
1.87
Rank: 10 (Overall)
0.659
2.7
👆🏻
Electropositivity
Pauling Electropositivity
2.07
Rank: 45 (Overall)
1.46
3.3
👆🏻
Ionization Energies
1st Energy Level
731.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 27 (Overall)
375.7
26130
👆🏻
2nd Energy Level
2,070.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 11 (Overall)
392.8
28750
👆🏻
3rd Energy Level
3,361.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 19 (Overall)
392.8
34230
👆🏻
4th Energy Level
7,310.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 10 (Overall)
375.7
37066
👆🏻
5th Energy Level
7,310.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 24 (Overall)
392
97510
👆🏻
6th Energy Level
7,310.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 39 (Overall)
1007
105800
👆🏻
7th Energy level
7,310.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 33 (Overall)
1007
114300
👆🏻
8th Energy Level
7,310.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 31 (Overall)
730
125300
👆🏻
9th Energy Level
7,310.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 27 (Overall)
1007
134700
👆🏻
10th Energy Level
7,310.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 32 (Overall)
392
144300
👆🏻
11th Energy Level
7,310.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 31 (Overall)
392
169988
👆🏻
12th Energy Level
7,310.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 49 (Overall)
0
189368
👆🏻
13th Energy Level
7,310.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 25 (Overall)
1007
76015
👆🏻
14th Energy Level
731.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 78 (Overall)
380
86450
👆🏻
15th Energy Level
73,100.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 22 (Overall)
33000
100700
👆🏻
16th Energy Level
73,100.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 17 (Overall)
375.7
109480
👆🏻
17th Energy Level
731.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 38 (Overall)
375.7
122200
👆🏻
18th Energy Level
7,310.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 28 (Overall)
0
134810
👆🏻
19th Energy Level
731.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 35 (Overall)
375.7
148700
👆🏻
20th Energy Level
731.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 29 (Overall)
0
171200
👆🏻
21st Energy Level
731.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 47 (Overall)
375.7
179100
👆🏻
22nd Energy Level
731.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 23 (Overall)
330
184900
👆🏻
23rd Energy Level
731.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 48 (Overall)
357.6
198800
👆🏻
24th Energy Level
731.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 22 (Overall)
297.3
195200
👆🏻
25th Energy Level
731.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 22 (Overall)
0
121900
👆🏻
26th Energy Level
731.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 22 (Overall)
357.6
127700
👆🏻
27th Energy Level
731.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 21 (Overall)
0
133800
👆🏻
28th Energy Level
731.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 27 (Overall)
297.3
139800
👆🏻
29th Energy Level
731.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 28 (Overall)
0
148100
👆🏻
30th Energy Level
731.00 kJ/mol
Rank: 22 (Overall)
0
154500
👆🏻
Electrochemical Equivalent
4.02 g/amp-hr
Rank: 7 (Overall)
0.16812
8.3209
👆🏻
Electron Work Function
4.26 eV
Rank: 27 (Overall)
2.14
6
👆🏻
Other Chemical Properties
Chemical Stability, Ionization, Solubility
Atomic Number
47
Rank: 65 (Overall)
3
117
👆🏻
Electron Configuration
[Kr] 4d10 5s1
Crystal Structure
Face Centered Cubic (FCC)
Crystal Lattice
Atom
Number of Protons
47
Rank: 64 (Overall)
3
117
👆🏻
Number of Neutrons
61
Rank: 48 (Overall)
4
285
👆🏻
Number of Electrons
47
Rank: 64 (Overall)
3
117
👆🏻
Radius of an Atom
Atomic Radius
144.00 pm
Rank: 38 (Overall)
0
348
👆🏻
Covalent Radius
145.00 pm
Rank: 41 (Overall)
0
260
👆🏻
Van der Waals Radius
172.00 pm
Rank: 45 (Overall)
0
348
👆🏻
Atomic Weight
107.87 amu
Rank: 59 (Overall)
6.94
294
👆🏻
Atomic Volume
10.30 cm3/mol
Rank: 65 (Overall)
1.39
71.07
👆🏻
Adjacent Atomic Numbers
Previous Element
Next Element
Valence Electron Potential
11.40 (-eV)
Rank: 66 (Overall)
0
392.42
👆🏻
Lattice Constant
408.53 pm
Rank: 23 (Overall)
0
891.25
👆🏻
Lattice Angles
π/2, π/2, π/2
Lattice C/A Ratio
1.59
Rank: 26 (Overall)
0.423
1.9
👆🏻
Density
Density At Room Temperature
10.49 g/cm3
Rank: 37 (Overall)
0.534
40.7
👆🏻
Density When Liquid (at m.p.)
9.32 g/cm3
Rank: 46 (Overall)
0.512
41
👆🏻
Tensile Strength
170.00 MPa
Rank: 21 (Overall)
0.1
11000
👆🏻
Viscosity
0.00
Rank: 23 (Overall)
1.5E-05
0.0035
👆🏻
Vapor Pressure
Vapor Pressure at 1000 K
0.00 (Pa)
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0
121
👆🏻
Vapor Pressure at 2000 K
0.00 (Pa)
Rank: 38 (Overall)
0
774
👆🏻
Elasticity properties
Shear Modulus
30.00 GPa
Rank: 27 (Overall)
1.3
222
👆🏻
Bulk Modulus
100.00 GPa
Rank: 16 (Overall)
0
462
👆🏻
Young's Modulus
83.00 GPa
Rank: 25 (Overall)
0
528
👆🏻
Poisson Ratio
0.37
Rank: 7 (Overall)
0.032
0.47
👆🏻
Other Mechanical Properties
Ductile, Malleable
Magnetic Characteristics
Specific Gravity
10.50
Rank: 39 (Overall)
0.53
4500
👆🏻
Magnetic Ordering
Diamagnetic
Permeability
0.00 H/m
Rank: 17 (Overall)
1.25643E-06
0.0063
👆🏻
Susceptibility
0.00
Rank: 32 (Overall)
-0.000166
200000
👆🏻
Electrical Properties
Electrical Property
Conductor
Resistivity
15.87 nΩ·m
Rank: 52 (Overall)
0.1
961
👆🏻
Electrical Conductivity
0.63 106/cm Ω
Rank: 1 (Overall)
0
0.63
👆🏻
Electron Affinity
125.60 kJ/mol
Rank: 5 (Overall)
0
222.8
👆🏻
Specific Heat
0.24 J/(kg K)
Rank: 25 (Overall)
0.1
3.6
👆🏻
Molar Heat Capacity
25.35 J/mol·K
Rank: 51 (Overall)
13.1
62.7
👆🏻
Thermal Conductivity
429.00 W/m·K
Rank: 1 (Overall)
0
429
👆🏻
Critical Temperature
1,235.00 K
Rank: 50 (Overall)
26.3
3695
👆🏻
Thermal Expansion
18.90 µm/(m·K)
Rank: 25 (Overall)
4.5
97
👆🏻
Enthalpy
Enthalpy of Vaporization
255.10 kJ/mol
Rank: 58 (Overall)
7.32
799.1
👆🏻
Enthalpy of Fusion
11.30 kJ/mol
Rank: 37 (Overall)
2.1
35.23
👆🏻
Enthalpy of Atomization
284.50 kJ/mol
Rank: 48 (Overall)
61.5
837
👆🏻
Standard Molar Entropy
42.60 J/mol.K
Rank: 48 (Overall)
9.5
198.1
👆🏻