Question

More reactive metals occur in the combined form, whereas less reactive metals occur as free metal in nature. Give reasons.​

Answer 1

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Here's your answer,

Metals such as aluminium, magnesium etc. have a tendency to react or combine with other elements in order to form compounds. Therefore, they occur in combined forms.

On the other hand, less reactive metals such as gold, platinum etc. do not have a tendency to combine with other elements and thus they exist as free metal.

Highly reactive metals possess greater reactivity and hence are not found in free state.

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Answer 2

Most reactive metals cannot stay in free state as they are reactive to air water and cannot stay for long in the surroundings like sodium which reacts vigorously with water. On the other hand the less reactive metals like gold ,silver can easily stay in the free state and not react.
The reason is that the higher a element in the relativity series the more it will react and hence will be unstable.