Name: silver	Group number: 11
Symbol: Ag	Group name: Coinage metal
Atomic number: 47	Period number: 5
Atomic weight: 107.8682 (2) g	Block: d-block
CAS Registry ID: 7440-22-4	Voice:
Standard state: solid at 298 K	Colour: silver
Classification: Metallic	Availability:

Isolation

Silver is readily available commercially so it is not normally necessary to prepare silver in the laboratory. However the formation of silver metal may be demonstrated in a satisfying reaction in which copper metal is dipped into a solution of silver nitrate, AgNO₃.

Cu(s) + 2 AgNO₃ (aq) Cu(NO₃)₂ + 2 Ag (s)

The result is formation of often attractive silver crystals and a blue-green solution of copper nitrate. Industrially, silver is usually a byproduct of processes whose main object is the extraction of another metal such as copper, lead, and zinc. So called "anode slimes" from the electrolytic purification of copper contain silver and a somewhat involved process is finished by an electrolysis of a nitrate solution containing silver.