Elemental Silver Colour What is the colour of elemental Ag? I have doubt whether it is black or silver in colour.




In Tollens' test, we get a silvery precipitate of elemental silver - hence silver in colour.
I have read somewhere and also in the following links as a reference that it was not mere speculation


http://books.google.co.in/books?id=AFY2gKwh4AsC&amp;pg=PA553&amp;lpg=PA553&amp;dq=elemental+silver+precipitate&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=nzfsQcBAm6&amp;sig=jTCQk7-k0HzAByI25ESI6OSclJs&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=S1d7U6aXIY-OuASHp4HIDQ&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q=elemental%20silver%20precipitate&amp;f=false

(towards the end)
and 

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=cZL_-hyw98sC&amp;pg=PA675&amp;lpg=PA675&amp;dq=elemental+silver+precipitate&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=DDhdhikKhU&amp;sig=zIq-qQM7VI4i5enohZVi3oIagHw&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=S1d7U6aXIY-OuASHp4HIDQ&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q=elemental%20silver%20precipitate&amp;f=false

Please confirm this. Thanks in advance.
Silver:



Silver sulfide precipitate is black.  You are pobably confusing a precipitate in a test for silver, with actual silver.  The precipitate in a test will be a compound of silver, such as silver sulphide which is black.  

Nanophase metal particles are optically different from bulk in many cases, and can be black, but this doesn't seem to be what the question is referring to.