{"id":9608,"date":"2026-06-10T12:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9608"},"modified":"2026-06-10T12:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:01:19","slug":"gold-isnt-inert-it-just-has-bodyguards-protecting-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9608","title":{"rendered":"Gold isn\u2019t inert, it just has bodyguards protecting it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Chris Lee<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 9, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Gold is weird. It&#8217;s one of the few metals that doesn\u2019t really oxidize. Even silver and copper\u2014from the same column of the periodic table\u2014form weak oxides. Naively, you might expect that gold would tarnish just like silver. Gold also sits right next to platinum, but it has none of that metal\u2019s catalytic properties.<\/p>\n<p>Then came gold nanoparticles that acted like catalysts, and we were confused by their apparent willingness to take part in chemical reactions.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a pair of scientists has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1103\/g3bc-t1qv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explained that gold\u2019s inertness<\/a> isn\u2019t inherent to the atom but rather to the surfaces that gold crystals form. Before we get to the results, let\u2019s first take a look at the traditional explanation for gold\u2019s inertness and why an inert material that has no catalytic activity suddenly acts as a catalyst when in its nanoparticle form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/06\/gold-isnt-inert-it-just-has-bodyguards-protecting-it\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/06\/gold-isnt-inert-it-just-has-bodyguards-protecting-it\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/06\/gold-isnt-inert-it-just-has-bodyguards-protecting-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Lee &bull; June 9, 2026 Gold is weird. It&#8217;s one of the few metals that doesn\u2019t really oxidize. Even silver and copper\u2014from the same column of the periodic table\u2014form weak oxides. Naively, you might expect that gold would tarnish just like silver. Gold also sits right next to platinum, but it has none of<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9608\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}