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Mindat Short Description

Copper Group. Gold-Silver Series and Palladium-Silver Series.

Silver is used in jewelry, tableware, coins, scientific equipment and in photographic processes. Silver tarnishes black with a surface layer of acanthite (silver sulphide), especially whe...

Geoscience Ontology Status Notes

Mineral name has been known since antiquity and predates any formal descriptive publication.

IMA Formula (from Mindat)

Ag

RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)

Ag

Additional References

• http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/silver.pdf

• http://www.webmineral.com/data/Silver.shtml