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silver: Media

chemical element

Videos

Chinese sculpture during the Han dynasty examined
A discussion of Chinese art, from the documentary China: West Meets East at the...
Video: Great Museums Television (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Images

silver
Silver and its properties.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
silver nugget
A silver nugget.
© Björn Wylezich/Dreamstime.com
silver tea caddy, 1767–68
Silver tea caddy with maker's mark C.N., hallmark for 1767–68, London; in the Victoria...
Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; photograph, A.C. Cooper Ltd.
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great on a silver tetradrachm of Lysimachus, 297–281 bce.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Martin A. Ryerson (1922.4924), www.artic.edu
argentite
Argentite from Freiberg, Germany.
Courtesy of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, photograph, John H. Gerard/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Dendritic (branching) silver from Ontario
Courtesy of Joseph and Helen Guetterman Collection; photograph, John H. Gerard

Interactives

Explore an interactive periodic table of the elements
Periodic table of the elements.
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