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The reason Ag is the symbol for silver is that the Latin name for silver is argentum, from the Indo-European root *arg- for "white" or "shining". Compared to some other metals like lead, which is more grey, copper, which is more orange, or gold, which is more yellow, silver is indeed "white". Pure, untarnished silver also has quite a nice reflective shine to it too.

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