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Gold is very low in the reactivity series (i.e. the electrochemical series). This makes it poorly electropositive. This means that it does not prefer to exist as positive ions but prefers its (natural) atomic state.

This explains why one can find native Gold, something which can never occur for highly electropositive metals like Potassium.

Gold is therefore unreactive.

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