Argentum

Anglo-Saxon, Seolfor siolfur L. argentum) Silver has been known since ancient times. It is mentioned in Genesis. Slag dumps in Asia Minor and on islands in the Aegean Sea indicate that man learned to separate silver from lead as earl as 3000 B.C. 

Many of the metals used by ancient man— coppei (cuprum, Cu), silver (argentum, Ag), gold (aurum, Au), tin (stannum, Sn), and lead (plumbum, Pb)—are in relatively short supply. Ancient man found deposits of the first three occurring as the elementary metals. These three may also be separated from their ores by relatively simple chemical processes. On the othei hand, aluminum and titanium, though abundant, are much more difficult to prepare from their ores. Fluorine is more abundant in the earth than chlorine but chlorine and its compounds are much more common—they are easier to prepare and easier to handle. However, as the best sources of the elements now common to us become depleted, we will have to turn to the elements that are now little used. 

Copper Cu cuprum Latin Silver Ag argentum Latin ... 

The name copper and the symbol Cu are derived from the Latin cuprum, after the island of Cyprus, where the Romans first obtained copper metal. The symbols Ag and Au for silver and gold come from the Latin names for these elements argentum... 

Alternate names Argentum, argentum crede Cl 77820, shell silver, silver atom, silvercolloidal, silflake, silpowder, silber Lunar caustic fused silver nitrate, molded silver nitrate argenti, nitras, nitric acid silver (I) salt, nitric acid silver (1+) salt, silver (1+) nitrate... 

Silver (Ag, [Kr]4 /I05.s 1), name from Anglo-Saxon seolfor or siolfur (silver), symbol from the Latin argentum (from Greek dp os, shiny). Known since ancient times. 

Silver - the atomic number is 47 and the chemical symbol is Ag. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon seofor and siolfur, which is of unknown origin. The chemical symbol, Ag, derives from the Latin argentum and Sanskrit argimas for bright . The element was known in prehistoric times. 

ORIGIN OF NAME Silver s modern chemical symbol (Ag) is derived from its Latin word argentum, which means silver. The word "silver" is from the Anglo-Saxon world "siolfor." Ancients who first refined and worked with silver used the symbol of a crescent moon to represent the metal. 

Symbol derived from the Latin name argentum. 

The term solarium or solarium argentum—salt money—was used by the Romans for the pay of generals and military tribunes, and hence followed the term salary in some cases a man might not be worth his salt. ... 

Minium [he says], is an ore. During the digging, it sheds tears of quicksilver which the miners collect and save. The masses of ore as taken from the mine are so full of moisture that they are thrown into a furnace or oven in the laboratory to dry, and the fumes that are driven off from them by the heat of the fire, settle down on the floor of the oven and are found to be quicksilver (argentum vivum). When the lumps of ore are taken out, the drops which remain are so small that they cannot he gathered up, but they are swept into a vessel of water, and there they run together and combine into one. ... 

The old Romans actually knew nine of the substances we call elements today. They called them, of course, by their Latin names (the same we use today in chemical symbols) carbo (carbon—C), sulfur (S), aurtim (gold — Au), argentum (silver —... 

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