What is silver?

Silver is a shiny metal that you can use to make things like coins and jewelry.

Silver is like a super smooth, reflective mirror, but it’s soft enough that you can shape it with your hands or tools. If you touch a silver spoon, it feels cool and smooth, just like the inside of a water bottle.

Deep underground, there are big chunks of silver mixed with other minerals. People dig them up and melt them in big hot ovens to get pure silver. It’s kind of like making chocolate, you mix everything together, heat it up, and then it becomes something new and shiny.

When you use a silver spoon to stir your soup or eat ice cream, it stays cool longer than a plastic spoon. That's because silver is really good at passing along cold and heat. It’s like the fastest messenger in town, it takes the cold from your ice cream and gives it to your hands super fast!

Silver also doesn’t rust easily, so it keeps looking shiny for a long time, just like how your favorite toy stays new even after you play with it every day.