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Nevada State Metal
Silver
(Ag)
Adopted in 1977.
Silver was adopted in 1977 as
Nevada's state metal.
The state metal is silver. Nevada has many minerals but silver was one of the most important in our early mining days, thousands of silver mines scatter the land of Nevada
Silver there formed strictly on the surface. Over millions of years of desert conditions, silver sulfide minerals weathered out of their volcanic host rocks and slowly turned, under the influence of rainwater, to silver chloride. The climate of Nevada concentrated this silver ore in supergene enrichments. These heavy gray crusts were often polished by dust and wind to the dull luster of a cow horn—horn silver. You could shovel it right off the ground, but once it was gone, there was
nothing left beneath for the hard-rock miner.
Silver is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Ag (from the traditional abbreviation from the Latin Argentum) and atomic number 47. A soft white lustrous transition metal, silver has the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal and occurs in minerals and in free form. This metal is used in used in jewelry, tableware, coins, scientific equipment and in photographic processes. Silver tarnishes black with a surface layer of Acanthite, especially when
placed in proximity to sulphorous compounds. It is primarily found as a constituent of hydrothermal veins. It is often found associated with copper. Unlike Gold it is soluble in any oxydizing mineral acid.
CHAPTER 235
STATE EMBLEMS; GIFTS AND ENDOWMENTS
STATE SEAL AND MOTTO
NRS 235.090 State metal. The metallic element known as silver (Ag) is hereby designated as the official state metal of the State of Nevada.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 355)
General Silver Information
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| Chemical Formula |
Ag |
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Molecular Weight = 107.87 gm |
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Silver 100.00 % Ag |
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| Empirical Formula |
(Ag ) |
| Environment |
In sulfide ore veins.. |
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Valid Species (Pre-IMA) Prehistoric |
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Mexico and Norway have large deposits of silver. |
| Name Origin |
Anglo-Saxon, of unknown origin. |
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State Symbols
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State symbols represent things that are special to a
particular state.
symbol \ˈsim-bəl\
noun
Etymology:
in sense 1, from Late Latin symbolum, from Late Greek symbolon, from Greek, token, sign; in
other senses from Latin symbolum token, sign, symbol, from Greek symbolon, literally, token
of identity verified by comparing its other half, from symballein to throw together,
compare, from syn- + ballein to throw — more at devil
Date: 15th century
1: Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or
convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.
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