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In the post with 5 random facts about me, I mentioned that the “925” in my username comes from my love for silver. This number stamped on silver products means that there’s 92,5% of silver in the metal. Silver is rather soft, so to make things out of it, it’s usually mixed with other materials, most often copper. The number 925 is proof that the jewellery meets the standards for sterling silver. “Sterling” refers to the silver pennies introduced by the Normans.
I decided to share some more interesting facts about this metal.
- Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag. It comes from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European word meaning “shiny” or “white”.
- In ancient Egypt, silver was valued much more highly than gold.
- Silver was one of the first five elements discovered, along with gold, copper, lead and iron and has been mined for over 6000 years.
- Ancient civilizations often associated silver jewellery with special powers, like healing, good fortune, and protection from evil spirits.
- In alchemy, silver is associated with the moon, sea and various lunar goddesses.
- In the middle ages, a pound of currency was equal to a pound of silver in weight.
- Silver is the most reflective element, reflecting 95% of the visible light spectrum.
- Most of the world’s silver is now found in Mexico and Peru. Other countries with large quantities of silver include the US, Canada, Russia and Australia.
- Argentina got its name from the Spanish adjective meaning ‘silvery’, because when Spanish conquerors landed there the natives presented them with silver objects.
- Silver has antibacterial properties.
See also:
Interesting Facts About Pistachios
5 Interesting Facts About Orchids
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Do you like silver jewellery?
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Do you prefer silver over gold?
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Gold is the my preferred metal, but I love silver jewelry as well. I gave up on silver jeweler as it is hard to maintain. I still have some oxidized silver jewelry. I did not know that silver had antibiotic properties.,
That’s true; I clean silver with a mixture of baking soda and lemon juice easily, but it’s a risky business if there are natural stones in the jewelry. Gold has antibacterial properties too. Truly amazing materials.
Thank you! Gold is beautiful too, it just doesn’t appeal to me as much.
Interesting facts about silver especially the origin of the name Argentina.
The country and city names in South America are really interesting.
Very interesting facts about silver. I love jewelry.
Thank you for reading! I love it too, although I don’t wear it that much lately.
I have more jewelry than silver. Gold doesn’t appeal to me.
It’s the same for me too.
i like silver and white gold much more than yellow gold!
Me too, they are more neutral-looking.
plus my wife loves silver and white gold, Makes my life easier!
Not sure about white gold, but silver is definitely more affordable and I guess that’s one of the reasons I like it. ?
we each have a white gold wedding band that we got many years ago. so it is important to me!
we mostly o silver, my wife likes the look of silver more.
Very interesting facts about silver
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Thank you for sharing very interesting facts about silver
Thank you, I am glad you found them interesting!
Interesting facts about silver.
Here’s a possible number 11. The Chinese (and other Asians) use silver to treat bruises.
Then again I am not sure about this. 🙂
I remember that when I was a little, our kindergarden teacher used to rub a coin on kids’ bruices (quite unhygienic when I think about it now), but I don’t know whether it had to do with the metal or just the rubbing sensation calmed the pain. The coins weren’t silver either.
Interesting information. Thanks. Homoeopathy has a remedy based on silver.
I use silver water from the pharmacy for its antibacterial purposes.
I learned a lot about silver, dear Ellie …. otherwise I know it well but I don’t wear it
I am happy to hear you learnt a lot about silver!
I learned a lot of interesting things about silver that I didn’t know
Very iterating facts. I have always preferred silver jewelry over gold. Thanks for these!
Thank you so much! I prefer it too and I don’t even know why, it really appeals to me more.