Silver - THE MOST REFLECTIVE METAL! 

Argon walks into a bar. Bar man says, "We don't serve noble gases." Argon doesn't react.

Brings me back to my youth in 1960 finding a pound of silver nitrate in a college dump. Made some beautiful things with the reduced product. Btw, newish alloy called “Argentum” alloyed with germanium instead of copper. Much more corrosion resistant and does not develop fire scale like sterling does in manufacture.

When i was in the army in the 70s we had radios that used silver zinc cells.

The quality of this video is outstanding

Thanks again for post another video of chemical elements! 👍 For who doesn't know the name of my country, Argentina, is inspired on the famous "Río de la plata" ("silver river" in English) because Spanish explorers of the XVI century beleaved that the actual Paraná river was a path to a huge silver deposit (the Potosí's mines, in Perú) and, in 1810, the founders of the country took the legend to bautize it with the actual name, so by analogy "Argentum/Argent" became in "Argentina". 😊

"We can conclude silver is a very shiny metal." Yes

When he bent the coin i started crying like Munch's "the scream" 😂

The crystals were mesmerizing ❤

Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants, debt is the money of slaves.

When he bent that Silver American Eagle... I FELT THAT.

It's so bad that videos with quality like this not popular yet, i hope this channel can educate more and more people

2:40 In the US, those coins CAN be spent as currency.

It's nice to see your channel improve over the years... Good job

A most beautiful presentation of Argent! I am showing this to everyone I know. You did a wondrous job of artistically showing this element. Huge task to explain something that has been important and loved for thousands of years. Awesome.

13:20 There are some washing machines, that came into the market several years ago, that use silver in small amounts and within the construction of the drum(s) or as a solution that pours in small amounts in the different cycles of the wash. In the past, sometimes people would leave or place their silver coins in the washing machine with their laundry to give the same effect.

I wish my chemistry teacher had been as inspiring as you.

Glad to see this video! This is why I collect silver of course. It looks great (and doesn’t cost 1500 usd per oz like gold)

I really love your videos! Thank you so very much for sharing your knowledge! I collect Silver and just wanted t suggest that you might prefer using the Canadian Silver Maple leaf coin as it is even more pure (.9999 fine) as opposed to the American Silver Eagle which is .(999 fine)... they actually both have the same amount of silver but the Silver eagle has a small amount of copper to make it stronger. Additionally, the Silver maple should be slightly cheaper by a dollar or two per ounce. Thanks Again!

That conclusion was priceless

Thank you for this, and thanks again for making the vid in English, so much stuff I didn't know!

Note that silver does NOT have the highest thermal conductivity, just the highest among pure metals. There are plenty of substances and even pure elements that conduct heat much better, for instance diamond, but even that doesn't hold a candle to a heat pipe.

One of your BEST! Thanks.

MY favorite CHANNEL

Silver is a very versatile mineral no doubt. This guy is smart and interesting to listen to.

Learned today many more about silver, thx to you😄👍

Thanks, guys, I missed an component of the basic human valuation of metals; relfectivity must play a role, or be connected at a fundamental physical level to malleability, ductility and conductivity (connectivity).

I need you as my techer in my life.. i love chem and your demonstration skills

Thanks a lot for sharing the information

Great video, this one is probably my fav!

Your video's are absolutely superb!

Indelible inks used for marking voters are Silver Nitrate based.

Been enjoying this guys videos lately. His accent always puts a smile on my dial.

If there was a game that involves silver or restoring silver to its original luster, the player must also look for aluminum, water, table salt and baking soda. It would make a great little puzzle or side-quest.

Very educational. Thanks for another great and informative video! 👍

Great one ...SILVER AND GOLD is my cup of tea 🤩 as goldhunter

It was not clear from the pronounciation, but there are three distinct silver compounds with similar pronounciation but different nature: silver NITRATE - AgNO3 - the photographic stuff silver NITRIDE - Ag3N - the explosive stuff silver NITRITE - AgNO2 - reagent useful for organic chemistry, e.g. oxidation and substitution reactions

When I'm in the mood to be a nerd, this is my go to channel! Can you do a video on how is it possible that elements can create organic life? We all came from a single cell delivered from our space, how?

8:20 My dad, a photographer, used to have these around the dark-room but I never understood why; now I know.

Literally had no idea that silver was used in manufacturing of mirrors! That was awesome when you made one on the glass slide. Also like the alternative photography bit too.

This video was super informative, but damn, it was hard watching him destroy that silver eagle.

For that wide information you provide a million likes isn't enough👏🏻

Great video 👍 , well done , always learning something new from watching your videos , Good job man.

Truly appreciate what you do! Your vids learn me so good. Lol

The silver crystals remind me of a Mandelbrot pattern. Beautiful - it would be nice to see or have crystals of sliver on another surface, which could be stored out of the liquid.

Wow. Silver is truly a magical metal.

What an amazing coincidence, I just bought a 1 oz. silver coin!

I love the conclusion of this video, "silver is shiny" 😂😂

Great lesson on Ag! There are so many applications using silver that it boggles the mind. It's astounding that such a miracle metal has a price of only $ 18.00 per ounce. Should the world catch hold of that amazing arrangement, a thousand times the price is not out of question!

If you don't have copper plate to make silver from silver nitrate solution, you can use freshly stripped copper wire in the solution.

Dude, please re-do the zinc one. I'm not watching a video of yours that hasn't got your voice in it, and zinc is one of my favorite elements.

I learned something new today. Thank you.

Alloying silver with germanium as well as copper (and I think traces of other elements) makes it resistant to tarnish. The alloys are sold as “Argentium”

You are giving us good knowledge thank you keep it up

You know, just how awesome you are? Totally. Totally awesome ... from your long time subscribers here in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Silver has health benefits. Colloidal silver soap, salve, and other products help heal skin.

Thanks for video..i learn many thing of chemistry..i loved it

You dont have to wait an hour to clear your silver that way. Just boil water add only baking soda and splash of vinegar to the foil bowl and your silver will look new in 1 or 2 mins! Whip and clean it for extra clean!

I'm a welder by trade and my house burnt down and ruined my silver stack, I built a propane furnace with a blower and melted it all down at once and poured it into a 2,500 ozt. brick that weighs just over 171 lbs. worth over $45,000, I polished it to a near perfect shine and it's freaking awesome, silver is really awesome when you see a block that's to heave to pick up by hand, I decided to put it up 4sell

Thank you for your interesting videos Thoisoi

So informative thank you for all you do

Fun fact. The 1966 Australian 50cent coin contained silver

Didja know that Grand Coulee dam, in Washington State, uses silver windings in some of their generators? WWII saw a hug demand for copper, so generators were being stripped and re-wound in silver from the US mint. The metal is still part of the US mint inventory, and there is no need for guards; the silver is in the rotor! They were supposed to revert to copper after the War, but it never happened due to costs. They are a tiny bit more efficient than their copper brethren...

Thank you Borat for explaining silver to us

Silver 2020!

If Silver has the highest reflectance, why is aluminum used in optics for reflecting visible light, as with first-surface mirrors and diffraction gratings? Also, gold, not silver, is the preferred reflector for IR.

Amazing video thanks 👍 subbed!!

I make bad chemistry puns cuz all the good ones argon!!!!!!

Ancient Greek Coinage. Archaic period (until about 480 BC). The earliest known electrum coins, Lydian and East Greek coins found under the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, are currently dated to the last quarter of the 7th century BC (625-600 BC). These coins were issued either by the non-Greek Lydians for their own use or perhaps because Greek mercenaries wanted to be paid in precious metal at the conclusion of their time of service, and wanted to have their payments marked in a way that would authenticate them. These coins were made of electrum, an alloy of gold and silver that was highly prized and abundant in that area. In the middle of the 6th century BC, King Croesus replaced the electrum coins with coins of pure gold and pure silver, called Croeseids. The credit for inventing pure gold and silver coinage is attributed by Herodotus to the Lydians. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_coinage

I had a horrible experience with silver nitrate. In my school, we had a science exhibition and my team and I were demonstrating fun and interesting chemical reactions. One of which was dissolving copper pellets in silver nitrate solution to form copper nitrate and obtain silver on surface of copper pellets. When I was disposing off the the remaining mixture of copper, copper nitrate and silver nitrate, a lot of it splashed onto my hand and my hand was covered in black spots for a month! I wish i had known this trick earlier

Great video but I wish it would have touched more upon silvers anti bacterial properties. For instance milk stored in a silver pitcher will spoil slower and many silver solutions can be used as topical antibacterial treatments. Some people even drink colloidal silver in the mistaken idea that it will make them healthier, and instead the metal is deposited in the skin and gums, turning them dark.

My favorite noble element 😻 I love this very shiny metal

When silver reflects and hits your eye: *Ag*

Se love your videos, keep tha gud worku

not the mention that silver is a very good antibacterial

Ok, I give it to you, you do make it clear your presentations are for informative purposes when you bent the SAE

Was born with a rusted iron spoon in my mouth.

Awesome video! I thought silver would be boring but this video was really well produced. It came out really interesting. :D

Silver sword for monsters, steel sword also for monsters

During WW2 it was requesioned for nuclear program, just as sheilding, after the war they refused to return it to the federal reserve. Today some is used in satellite magnetic shielding. Nano dots research. Superconductor research

Great video! Excellent work.

Silver is the best conductor at room temperature, they used it in the manhattan project as at the time superconductivity was not yet discovered and they needed the strongest possible electromagnet. Nothing to do with copper scarcity, please check your facts.

I have some questions that I hope you may clear up: Are colloidal silver for medical use (external and internal use) made by electrolysis in pure water or distilled water safe? And why are some of these colloids transparent and others from yellowish to golden? Thanks a lot!

Did you know - your body absorbs silver from your silver jewelry. I wear a silver engagement ring and silver kolovrat - I performed ICP-MS analysis on my own hair strands and found Silver in the 0.25 ppm range. Silver and Copper are extremely well tolerated by the human body, but they are highly toxic to other organisms - my question is why is that?

Great video. Love the accent.

You got me on this one dad. Much thanks.

One video containing lot's of Information about particular topic .

Many thumbs-up for you Chemical Engineer! Amazing video! I will share it with all my friends! I have a question for you (I'm a Computer Engineer) and during one of my chemical classes I learned that the silver sulfide reacts with aluminum. In the reaction, sulfur atoms are transferred from silver to aluminum, freeing the silver metal and forming aluminum sulfide. So this is the formula if I recall right: "3 Ag2S+2Al-->6Ag+Al2S3". My question is: If I have a "tarnished" silver bar with a weight of 1000000000000 grams (for example). If I placed the silver bar on an aluminum sheet like the experiment you showed to untarnishe the spoons to free the sulfur atoms from the silver bar, will the silver bar after that still weight exactly 1000000000000 grams or it will be less than that? Thank You! I can email you if you prefer.....

*crying and having a crisis while watching this video* me: nice

Silver Crystals WoW Just Like SnowFlakes Great Video Thoi

2 days in, I love your videos I gotta be honest. Very informative.

Thoisoi2: Mirrors are made by silver! Minecrafters: No, they`re made by sand! Thoisoi2: Sand is made by silver, too!

When my silver jewelry or silver tea set is tarnished I use toothpaste the kind with no abrasive in it and put tooth paste all over it let it sit for about 30 mins and then wipe clean it takes all the tarnish off then I use distilled water to wash the stickiness of the toothpaste residue off and after that I only paint my silver jewelry in clear fingernail polish to prevent tarnish for a long time until the push flakes off but it's a good thing to put on when you get tired of having to clean your silver jewelry, or if you don't want to do that either just get silver jewelry with a Platinum plated or rubium plated I have to worry about it anymore but I like the way silver looks so I don't like buy that kind.

Thank you fo ryour education.

"So in the end, we can conclude that silver is a very shiny metal"

Silver is a favorite metal of mine 😇😍🥰😜🤩

Ionic silver is dangerous for ingesting? Or colloidal silver? Silver ion's can react with other metal inside human body without electric power, like electolisis?

Very nice video, although it's silver nitride that develops as the solution ages and is VERY explosive, not the silver nitrate (which is very safe, and commonly sold). We were always taught in school it was the azide (which is also very explosive). I would not normally correct something in one of your videos, but the hazards associated with this solution (known as Tollen's reagent or Tollen's solution) are so well known and cause so many problems I felt the need to mention it. One of your best videos, Sir. Outstanding. I enjoyed it very much.

I like your sense for the beauty of nature and science.

Plz make video how photo sensitive chemical works how it's made ( like uv curable solder mask chemical !? )

Oak Ridge Laboratory did experiments on Nuetron reactor on silver dimes. This was shown 1964 Atomic Energy of America Nuetron Irradiator. Which transformed Ag 109 to Ag 110 due to Irradiation.