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what is the name given to metals which do not tarnish
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I don't like the term noble metals for exactly that reason. The Noble gasses are very very non reactive due to a fully occupied outer electron shell.
Infact nobody had managed to get any of them to react until 1962 when Xenon Florine compounds were created - One reason It took that long because Florine is such a dangerously reactive chemical and those pioneers of it's study had an unfortunate tendancy to meet untimely deaths.
By comparisom even gold is a bit of a chemical **** forming halides, sulfides and oxides amongst others.