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Yes, chemical similarities exist between hydrogen and alkali metals; also the electron configuration has a parallel.
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What element has not really an alkali metal but since you have only 1 electron you behave like them?
Hydrogen
What has only 1 electron and behaves like an alkali?
There is no metal like you describe in your question. Hydrogen is in Group 1, but is not an alkali metal. It is a gas at standard temperature. It does rarely behave like an alkali metal, and it does have only one electron. Hydrogen is in Group 1 primarily because of its electron configuration, which is 1s1. All of the alkali metals also have one electron in their outermost s orbital.
What is like a alkali metal but has 1 electron?
Hydrogen.
Is hydrogen an alkali metal in the periodic table?
No, it isn't. One of the clues of telling that is isn't, is that hydrogen is a gas, and If it was an alkali METAL, it would not be a gas, but a metal. Its place on the table does make sense, though; hydrogen tends to behave like other members of it's column in chemical reactions. For example, All of the alkali metals, and hydrogen Combine with oxygen to form the compound X2O, where "X" is either Hydrogen, Lithium, Sodium, Potasium, Rubidium, Cesium, or Francium.
What element behaves like an alkali metal but isn't and has 1 electron?
Hydrogen
In what way is hydrogen like the alkali metals?
Hydrogen has a single valence electron, just like the alkali metals. Unlike them, however, hydrogen prefers to covalently bond instead of forming an ionic bond.
If you are not a really an alkali metal but since you have 1 only electrons you behave like them what are you?
I am either Copper, silver or Gold.
Is hydrogen a alkali metal or alkaline metal?
Alkali metals can be substituted for hydrogen. Any of them. They include lithim (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), cesium (Cs) and francium (Fr). The alkali metals are in group one of the periodic table of the elements, and are all stacked up in the column below hydrogen. All the alkali metals are all organized with a lone electron in their outer most shell, or valence shell (in the neutral atom) and all of the alkali metals would like to loan out that electron to anything that would like to borrow it. It turns out that the reactivity of alkali metals are least to greatest from the top of the column to the bottom. This is because of electron screening. A link to our friends at Wikipedia is provided.
What is the element that is really not an alkali metal with 1 electron but act like one?
You think probable to hydrogen.
Is hydrogen metallic or non metallic'?
Under standard conditions, hydrogen is a non-metal (H2 gas,) but chemically, it can actually behave like a metal. Often, it bonds with other non-metals in the same proportion as other group 1 elements, all of which (except hydrogen) are alkali metals. It can also bond with metals as a hydride, where it acts more like a non-metal. Acids can lose a hydrogen ion, which has a charge of +1, just like many metals. Finally, under extreme pressure, hydrogen can actually become a metallic liquid; it is theorized that Jupiter's core is composed of liquid metallic hydrogen.
I have 1 electron and act like them im not really alkali metal.?
Hydrogen, it is one of the most difficult elements to classify: it can form +1 ions like the alkali metals, it can form -1 ions like the halogens, it is a nonmetal.
Is it true or false that hydrogen is considered to be a metal?
Hydrogen is a non-metal. Hydrogen is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas that is the most abundant element in the known universe. It is the lightest and simplest having only one proton and one electron. Although hydrogen has an ns1 electron configuration just like alkali metals, it is still not metal because it varies greatly from the alkali metals as it forms cations (H+) more reluctantly than other alkali metals. Because hydrogen is a nonmetal and forms H–(hydride anions), it is placed above the halogens in the periodic table. Hydrogen also forms H2dihydrogen like halogens. However, hydrogen is very different from halogens. Hydrogen has a much smaller electron affinity than halogens.
