Inspired by the table... Silver

Authors

  • María Belén Manfredi Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL), Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas (FBCB), Departamento de Química General y Química Inorgánica - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científcas y Técnicas (CONICET).

Keywords:

periodic table, chemical elements, silver

Abstract

If we played for a while that the elements of the periodic table represent national team jerseys, what do you think our element-t-shirt would be? I couldn't help but think that this would be the silver (yes, I can imagine it already without stripes with a big Ag written in the center of the back). Although, it is clear that my mind made the association easier in this game. Because the word Argentina comes from the Latin Argentum which means silver. Name that was also given to our Republic due to the important mines of this metal, present in the former Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. Perhaps then, due to this almost inevitable association between the name of our beloved country and that of this chemical element, Ag is one of my favorite elements.

References

Monje, M. (2009). Nanopartículas de plata: métodos de síntesis en disolución y propiedades bactericidas. Anales de La Real Sociedad Española de Química, 105 (1), 33–41.

Pastor, M. (2010). Vera Valdés Lakowsky, La plata en la historia. Del albo brillo a la pureza y perfección. Nueva Antropología, 23 (72),

-161.

Xia, Y. (2019). In My Element: Silver. Chemistry a European Journal, 25 (17), 4244, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201805675

Published

2019-12-30

How to Cite

Manfredi, M. B. (2019). Inspired by the table. Silver. Educación En La Química, 25(02), 87–90. Retrieved from https://educacionenquimica.com.ar/index.php/edenlaq/article/view/124

Issue

Section

HOMENAJE A LA TABLA PERIÓDICA

Similar Articles

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > >> 

You may also start an advanced similarity search for this article.