Question

Give reasons:

Gold and Silver often occur in native states.

Answer 1

• Native metals: These metals are found in their free state.
• Native metals are found in nature in their pure metallic state.
• Both the metals are less reactive in nature and that is why they resist the chemical reaction to occur.
• They do not undergo oxidation or reduction reactions.
• These are not attacked by air, water, and Carbon dioxide, and hence no reaction can be obtained.
• Gold and Silver chemically be represented by the symbol$\left(\mathrm{Au}\right)\mathbf{}\mathbf{and}\mathbf{}\left(\mathrm{Ag}\right)$ respectively.

Hence, we concluded that Gold and Silver are found in their native state and are less reactive than other metals.