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Hydrogen is its own family, with no close relatives.

It is in column 1 of the Periodic Table but is not much like any other element. Hydrogen doesn't share common properties with any other group so it is in a family of its own.

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On the periodic table hydrogen is placed with the alkali metals. The alkali metals form Group 1. While hydrogen seems different to the other members of this family:

  • it is a gas not solid
  • it forms diatomic molecules

It does react with the same types of cations to form to form similar compounds. At extremely low temperatures (near absolute zero) it solidifies into a metallic solid.

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