Silver is element 47, a transition metal of the d block, in group 11, period 5. Its ground-state configuration is [Kr] 4d10 5s1, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 1.
Silver has been known since antiquity, so no discovery is credited for it.
Name origin: English word (argentum in Latin).
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