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Who discovered silver and when?

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Element Name	Discovered By	Year
Silver	Known since ancient times	?
Sodium	Sir Humphry Davy	1807
Strontium	Adair Crawford	1790
Sulfur	Known since ancient times	?

In this way, what was the element silver named after?

Silver was discovered by Known since ancient times in unknown at not known. Origin of name: from the Anglo-Saxon word "siolfur" meaning "silver" (the origin of the symbol Ag comes from the Latin word "argentum" meaning "silver").

Where did the last name silver come from?

Last name: Silver. Recorded in many forms including Silber, Silbermann, Silver, Silvers, Silverman, Silvermann, Zylberman, Zylberdik, and Silversmid, this surname is mainly English, Scottish, German, and Hebrew. Of pre 7th century origins, it has at least three distinct possible sources.

1

Who first discovered bacteria?

Van Leeuwenhoek

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How did the copper get its name?

Copper gets its name from the Latin word Cuprum, meaning from the island of Cyprus. In the Ancient Roman world (whose common language was Latin), most copper was mined in Cyprus.

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How iron was discovered?

Discovery of Iron. The first iron used by humans is likely to have come from meteorites. In Mesopotamia (Iraq) there is evidence people were smelting iron around 5000 BC. Artifacts made of smelted iron have been found dating from about 3000 BC in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

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Who discovered the Zero?

Firstly, Zero wasn't discovered according to me. It should have been invented. Coming to the question, it was invented(used first) by Brahmagupta, not Aryabhata. Zero could have been invented for easier calculations and abstract mathematics.

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Who discovered a cell?

Robert Hooke

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Who was the person who discovered mercury?

Discovery of Mercury. Mercury or quicksilver has been known since ancient times. We do not know who discovered it. Mercury was known to the ancient Chinese, Egyptians and Hindus and has been found in Egyptian tombs dating back to about 1500 B.C.

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How did the iron get its name?

Origin of name: from the Anglo-Saxon word "iron" or "iren" (the origin of the symbol Fe comes from the Latin word "ferrum" meaning "iron"). Possibly the word iron is derived from earlier words meaning "holy metal" because it was used to make the swords used in the Crusades..

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Who found out about gravity?

Sir Isaac Newton

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Who discovered it and when?

Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1781. Herschel was probably the most famous astronomer of the 18th century. In addition to discovering the planet Uranus, he also observed and cataloged over 800 double stars and 2,500 nebulae.

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Where was discovered strontium?

Discovery of Strontium. Strontium was recognized as a new element in 1790 when Adair Crawford analyzed a mineral sample from a lead mine near Strontian, Scotland. Until then scientists had thought strontium and barium were the same element, and only barium's existence had been recognized.

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What was the element silver named after?

Silver was discovered by Known since ancient times in unknown at not known. Origin of name: from the Anglo-Saxon word "siolfur" meaning "silver" (the origin of the symbol Ag comes from the Latin word "argentum" meaning "silver").

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Who discovered the electrons of an atom?

The particle that J.J.Thomson discovered in 1897, the electron, is a constituent of all the matter we are surrounded by. All atoms are made of a nucleus and electrons. He received the Nobel Prize in 1906 for the discovery of the electron, the first elementary particle.

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Who discovered the gas helium?

Jules Janssen

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How did Silver get its name?

Our name for the element is derived from the Anglo-Saxon for silver, 'seolfor,' which itself comes from ancient Germanic 'silabar.' Silver's chemical symbol, Ag, is an abbreviation of the Latin word for silver, 'argentum.' The Latin word originates from argunas, a Sanskrit word meaning shining.

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Why gold is called Au?

Gold is element 79 and its symbol is Au. Though the name is Anglo Saxon, gold originated from the Latin Aurum, or shining dawn, and previously from the Greek. They are found naturally and were the first three elements known to man.

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Where does the world's silver come from?

Silver is sometimes found in nature as a free metal but also appears with other minerals and deposits of ore like copper, gold, nickel, lead and lead-zinc. Silver is heavily mined around the world with the largest deposits being mined in China, Australia, Peru, Poland, Serbia, Bolivia, Mexico and Chile.

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Who discovered the use of electricity?

Benjamin Franklin

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When was tin discovered and by whom?

Discovery of Tin. Tin has been known since ancient times. We do not know who discovered it. The Bronze Age began in about 3000 BC and tin was used in bronze, which contains roughly ninety percent copper and ten percent tin.

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Why silver is so important?

It has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal. Silver occurs in pure form, as an alloy with other metals or in minerals. Moreover, silver ions and compound can kill bacteria, algae, and fungi; therefore, silver helps purify, sanitize, and filter water.

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