hydrogen
how do metals react with oxygen
Au and Pt are some metals which do not react with O.
Alkali earth metals react with oxygen to form basic oxides.
Au or Pt are highly stable and they are noble metals as they do not react with oxygen readily
Non-metals typically form oxides when they react with oxygen. The resulting compounds are often acidic in nature.
A metal that does not react to acid, oxygen or water does not exist.
The pattern of reactions of metals with oxygen is based on their position in the reactivity series. Highly reactive metals like potassium, sodium, and calcium react vigorously with oxygen to form metal oxides. Less reactive metals like iron and copper react slowly with oxygen, forming metal oxides or hydroxides. Noble metals like gold and platinum do not react with oxygen at all under normal conditions.
Oxygen
metal oxide
Beryllium is the only alkaline metal that reacts to oxygen but not to water. The hydrogen in water stabilizes the reaction.
Not all metals react with water, but some, such as metallic sodium, do react quite vigorously with water. In a sense it is true that when metals react with water it is the same as reacting with oxygen, because the water molecule (H2O) does contain oxygen, and it is the oxygen in the water molecule with which metals react. Metals do not react with the hydrogen content of the water molecule, so when metal reacts with water, hydrogen gas is produced as a byproduct. It just bubbles out of the water.
group one and two metals react with oxygen in the air as well as moisture to from metal oxides