- Low reactivity metals like silver, mercury, platinum and gold are after sound in free state.
- Their reactivity with other atoms is very low.
- Oxides of these metals can be reduced to metals by heat alone and sometimes by displacement from their aqueous solution.
Ex : When cinnabar (HgS) heated in air, first converted into HgO, then reduced to mercury on further heating.
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