Silver Saxon

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. 

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. 

This small consumption of mercury compared with that of the American process arises from the fact that in the latter the chloride of silver is reduced by the mercury, and the chloride of mercury thus formed passes wholly into the residues, whereas in the Saxon process this reduction is effected by the iron. 

These results show how imperfect is this method and hence, in the great metallurgical centres, 11,6 method now preferred is to separate the silver from the copper, either by the amalgamation of tho matts or by that of tho black-copper. - These operations are effected in a manner analogous to the Saxon amalgamation process, which has been already described, so that it will be only necessary to indicate briefly the special circumstances resulting from the nature of the materials submitted to the operation. 

Karant-Nunn, Susan C. "The Women of the Saxon Silver Mines." In Women in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe, edited by Sherrin Marshall, 29-46. Bloomington Indiana University Press, 1989. 

One of the most important uses of silver has hitherto been for coins. Silver pennies were used by our Saxon ancestors. Standard... 

More than 100 years ago (1885), a silver ore of unusual appearance was found in the Saxon Ore Mountains (in the pit Himmelsfiirst (Duke of Heaven)]. The new mineral was named argyrodite and its components were analyzed by the Freiberg chemist Clemens Winkler in the laboratory of the Royal Saxon Mining College. Winkler discovered an element with the properties of Eka-silicon [1] predicted by Mendeleev. He called it germanium [2] and reported in the same year [3] that the new element was quadravalent and that it had to be classified between silicon... 

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