SILVER. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Colour pure white. 
Soluble in the three mineral acids ; most in the nitrous acid, 
least in the marine. 
Less malleable and ductile than gold. 
Melts at 28 degrees of Wedgwood’s pyrometer. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Argentum nativum. A. malleabile ductile intus metallice ni- 
tens, aqua forti totum solvendum. 
Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 3. p. 356. 
Malleable, ductile, and of a metallic 
lustre within ; entirely soluble in aqua- 
fortis. 
Argentum nativum. Waller. Miner. 
30/. Syst. Miner. 2. p. 328. no. I. 
Argentum nudum malleabile. Carth. 
Miner. 75. 
Native Silver. . . Cronst. Miner. 2. p. 540. Kinuan, 
Miner. 2. p. 108. Patrin, Hist. Nat. 
des Miner. 5. p. 128. Brogniart, 
Miner. 2. p. 248. 
Native silver is generally found in irregular shapes; 
sometimes in masses of no determinate form, some- 
