how is silver formed?

Answer 1

Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag (Latin: argentum). A soft white lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal and occurs in minerals and in free form. This metal is used in coins, jewelry, tableware, photography, and in mirrors.
Silver is a very ductile and malleable (slightly harder than gold) univalent coinage metal with a brilliant white metallic luster that can take a high degree of polish. It has the highest electrical conductivity of all metals, even higher than copper, but its greater cost and tarnishability has prevented it from being widely used in place of copper for electrical purposes.

Pure silver also has the highest thermal conductivity, whitest color, the highest optical reflectivity (although it is a poor reflector of ultraviolet light), and the lowest contact resistance of any metal. Silver halides are photosensitive and are remarkable for the effect of light upon them. This metal is stable in pure air and water, but does tarnish when it is exposed to ozone, hydrogen sulfide, or air containing sulfur. The most common oxidation state of silver is +1 (for example, silver nitrate; AgNO3); a few +2 (for example, silver(II) fluoride; AgF2) and +3 compounds (for example, silver(III) persulfate; Ag2(SO5)3) are also known.

Nobody and nothing formed an element.

Answer 2

How Is Silver Formed

Answer 3

Actually, Something DID form silver. A supernova explosion.

Stars are fueled by Converting Hydrogen into helium through fusion. When the star is really huge it burns faster, and makes more helium, then runs pretty much out of hydrogen. Then it starts to fuse Helium into heavier and heavier elements. This keeps the star shining, but causes a great deal more heat. Eventually Fusion reaches Iron, and Iron it the heaviest element that can be made at the pressures within a star. The interior of the star starts to cool, causing the shell to contract and then rebound, ripping the star apart in a massive explosion.

This explosion fuses iron and elements heavier than Iron.

The previous answer also covers how you make stuff out of it, if that was what you meant by formed.

Answer 4

Silver is found in native form, combined with sulfur, arsenic, antimony, or chlorine and in various ores such as argentite (Ag2S) and horn silver (AgCl). The principal sources of silver are copper, copper-nickel, gold, lead and lead-zinc ores obtained from Canada, Cobalt, Ontario, Mexico (historically Batopilas), Peru, Australia and the United States.

This metal is also produced during the electrolytic refining of copper. Commercial grade fine silver is at least 99.9% pure silver and purities greater than 99.999% are available. Mexico is the world's largest silver producer. According to the Secretary of Economics of Mexico, it produced 80,120,000 troy ounces (2492 metric tons) in 2000, about 15% of the annual production of the world.

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Answer 5

Silver can't be formed. It is naturally on earth. As you know, silver is an element on the periodic table, and elements can't be broken down into smaller values. Unlike compounds, are made up of more than one element.

Answer 6

In its natural ore state, you cannot do very much with gold nor silver. This is a long answer as to how you form it.
Silver was discovered after gold and copper about 4000 BC, when it was used in jewelry and as a medium of exchange. It is generally found in the combined state in nature, usually in copper or lead mineralization, and by 2000 BC mining and smelting of silver-bearing lead ores was under way. Lead ores were smelted to obtain an impure lead-silver alloy, which was then fire refined by cupellation. The best-known of the ancient mines were located at the Laurium silver-lead deposit in Greece; this was actively mined from 500 BC to AD 100.
By the 16th century, Spanish conquistadores had discovered and developed silver mines in Mexico, Bolivia, and Peru. These New World mines, much richer in silver, resulted in the rise of South and Central America as the largest silver-producing areas in the world. For the recovery of New World silver, the Patio process was employed. Silver-bearing ore was ground and then mixed with salt, roasted copper ore, and mercury. The mixing was accomplished by tethering mules to a central post on a paved patio (hence the name of the process) and compelling them to walk in a circle through the mixture. The silver was gradually converted to the elemental state in a very finely divided form, from which it was dissolved by the mercury. Periodically, the mercury was collected and distilled to recover the silver, and this was subsequently refined by cupellation. Cyanidation processes supplanted the Patio process in the late 19th century; by that time, the Moebius and Thum Balbach electrorefining processes had been introduced.

Answer 7

Silver is a native element and metal. Silver crystals are rare.

Answer 8

Silver is an element, so it's not "formed." It just is.

Answer 9

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pseudo-inert gas "stable" would also be correct, but probably isn't what the question writer had in mind.