Question

You are hired as a scrap metal dealer. A customer wants to sell you a piece of precious scrap metal. You know it is one of these common metals. You slowly heat the metal and it melts at 962 °C. You also take the density of the metal and find it to be roughly 10.5 g/cm3. What is the MOST LIKELY identity of the metal?
A) Copper
B) Gold
C) Silver
D) Zinc

Answer 1

This would be silver. Silver has a density of 10.5 g/cm^3.
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