noble metal

Gold is a noble metal- it does not react with most elements.

In physics, the definition of a noble metal is even more strict.

It is commonly used in opposition to noble metal.

Other sources include mercury or even rhenium as a noble metal.

The name makes an analogy to the term "noble metals", which also have low reactivity.

At optical frequencies characteristics of some noble metals are altered.

This tends to use more noble metals that resist corrosion better.

Who ever heard of a chunk of noble metal this big?"

Copper is one of the most noble metals.

The noble metals, platinum and gold, are usually suitable.

It reduces solutions of noble metal cations to the metals.

It stood about a foot tall, a simple tall cup made of noble metal.

Note that noble metals may be easy to solder but they have brittle joints.

Noble metal, for metals that are resistant to corrosion or oxidation.

Territories can have resources available to mine including metal, fuel, crystals, chemicals, noble metals, and others.

It exhibits a remarkable resistance to corrosion, even at high temperatures, and as such is considered a noble metal.

At the anode, copper and less noble metals dissolve.

Various reports are available on the possibility of recovering fission noble metals from spent nuclear fuel.

Sometimes the contacts are plated with noble metals.

Although gold is the most noble of the noble metals, it still forms many diverse compounds.

Reaction takes place with all metals except the noble metals series and certain alloys.

Antimony is considered to be a metalloid and thus cannot be a noble metal.

The following article might also clarify the correlation between band structure and the term noble metal:

Platinum is a noble metal and has the most stable resistance-temperature relationship over the largest temperature range.

Their noble metal steed took one look and dived into a narrow side-valley.