Most Of the Metals Are found in Two States What Are the two states Explain a little About it ?
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Combined and free state
Metals and their compounds are found in earth as natural elements known as minerals. Ores are minerals from which metals are extracted profitably and conveniently. Ores contain metal compounds with a lower percentage of impurities. All the ores are minerals, but all minerals are not necessarily ores.
In the Free State
Very few metals exist in the free or native state. Only metals like gold, platinum and mercury are occasionally found in the free state i.e., in the pure form. Sometimes, copper and silver may also be found in the free state. Such metals are not acted upon by air or water.
In the Combined State
The rest of the metals occur in the combined form as compounds such as oxides, carbonates, sulphides, sulphates, silicates, chlorides, nitrates, phosphates etc. Copper and silver are two metals which occur in free as well as combined state as sulphide, oxide or halide ores. Metals at the top of the activity series (K, Na, Ca, Mg and Al) are so reactive that they are never found in nature as free elements. The metals in the middle of the activity series (Zn, Fe, Pb, etc.) are moderately reactive. They are found in the earth's crust mainly as oxides, sulphides or carbonates.
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native metal is any metal that is found pure in its metallic form in nature.[1][2] Metals that can be found as native deposits singly or in alloys include aluminium, antimony, arsenic, bismuth, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, indium, iron, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, niobium, rhenium, selenium, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, and zinc, as well as two groups of metals: the gold group, and the platinum group. The gold group consists of gold, copper, lead, aluminium, mercury, and silver. The platinum group consists of platinum, iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, and ruthenium. Amongst the alloys found in native state have been brass, bronze, pewter, German silver, osmiridium, electrum, white gold, and silver-mercury and gold-mercury amalgam.