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Hydrogen readily combines with metals and thus shows its ______. -

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Hydrogen readily combines with metals and thus shows its ______. 

Options

  • electropositive character

  • electronegative character

  • Both electropositive character and electronegative character

  • none of these

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Solution

Hydrogen readily combines with metals and thus shows its electronegative character.

Explanation:

\[\ce{2Na + H2 →2NA+H-}\]

Hydrogen has a −ve (−1) oxidation state. 

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