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Probably a dumb question, but what is Au. and Ag. silver?

wheatguywheatguy Posts: 359 ✭
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I've heard this term before, and I was wondering what it meant.
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  • bestmrbestmr Posts: 1,777 ✭✭✭
    Au=gold and Ag=silver.

    Just their elemental terms.
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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    and Pd = Palladium, Pt = Platinum

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  • wheatguywheatguy Posts: 359 ✭
    Oh ok thanks, didn't notice that.
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  • carew4mecarew4me Posts: 3,470 ✭✭✭✭
    wheat,
    these are the element symbols within the periodic table:

    Silver
    Symbol: Ag
    Origin: From the Latin word for silver argentum

    Gold
    Symbol: Au
    Origin: From the Latin word for gold aurum

    Palladium
    Symbol: Pd
    Origin: From the Greek goddess of wisdom (Pallas)

    Platinum
    Symbol: Pt
    Origin: From the Spanish word platina (little silver)

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  • ZubieZubie Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭✭
    Thanks Carew4me,
    I didn't realize they were latin abbreviations.
    Good to know, Tim
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  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    Platinum -(little silver) with a BIG price!image
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  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    Oh no. No, you cannot fool me.


    I happen to know that the symbol for gold is GLD and the symbol for silver is SLV.

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My plates:

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  • adamlaneusadamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭
    Lead, Naturally Toned, New Orleans Gold?

    I don't get it.
  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,206 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Thanks Carew4me,
    I didn't realize they were latin abbreviations.
    Good to know, Tim >>


    These are not directly Latin abbreviations. They are the official symbols given to each element to be used on the periodic chart of the elements in chemistry.
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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Lead, Naturally Toned, New Orleans Gold?

    I don't get it. >>



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    --Severian the Lame
  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Weiss, I had not realized you were an alchemist.image
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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Weiss, I had not realized you were an alchemist.image >>



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  • gsa1fangsa1fan Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭
    Poor Boy in to Gold?
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  • renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lead into Gold
  • renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I use to live in Pb-ville (CO) where a lot a Au was mined. image
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    There are no dumb questions.

    There are only dumb people who

    do not ask questions about things

    that they do not know.
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  • ZubieZubie Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭✭
    Oh, come on Tom, I do know what a periodic table and elements are!!! Just didn't know where the Au and Ag came from.
    JK. Learn something every day. Tim
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  • MesquiteMesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I happen to know that the symbol for gold is GLD and the symbol for silver is SLV. >>



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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,128 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I use to live in Pb-ville (CO) where a lot a Au was mined. image >>



    I stopped in Leadville once for lunch, and the waitress gave everybody a glass of water to drink and a glass of liquid oxygen to breathe from. That was on a nice, cool spring-like day in August. How in the heck do you make it through the winter up there???

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  • KonaheadKonahead Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭
    If you remember back to high school chemistry class these come from the periodic table. If you are looking at ancient coins they refer to Ag (silver) as AR. Just to confuse you. image
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