Native metal brass, bronze, pewter, German silver, osmiridium, electrum, white gold, and silver-mercury and gold-mercury amalgam. Only gold, silver, copper and the platinum metals occur in nature in large amounts. Over geological time scales, very few metals can resist natural weathering processes like oxidation, which is why generally only the less reactive metals such as gold and platinum are found as native metals. The others usually occur as isolated pockets where a natural chemical process reduces a common compound or ore of the metal, leaving the pure metal behind as small flakes or inclusions. Non-metallic elements occurring in the native state include
Ore algebra Ore algebra In computer algebra, an Ore algebra is a special kind of iterated Ore extension that can be used to represent linear functional operators, including linear differential and/or recurrence operators. The concept is named after Øystein Ore. Let formula_1 be a (commutative) field and formula_2 be a commutative polynomial ring (with formula_3 when formula_4). The iterated skew polynomial ring formula_5 is called an Ore algebra when the formula_6 and formula_7 commute for formula_8, and satisfy formula_9, formula_10 for formula_11. Ore algebras satisfy the Ore condition, and thus can be embedded in a (skew) field of fractions. The constraint of