Is hydrogen a metal.If it is not why is it found on the left side of the periodic table?

Answer 1

That is just the reason why hydrogen is considered as an special element!

Answer 2

Hydrogen is on the left side of the Periodic Table because it is in group 1, row 1. It is not metal at all! It is by it's self.

Answer 3

It is on the left side of the Periodic Table because it is in group 1, row 1. Not everything on that side of the Table is there because it is a metal either. The setup of the table has to do with the atomic number of each element. You can do some interesting things with it once you learn how. Atoms like to have stable electron shell configurations, and are grouped accordingly. Everything would like to be like a Noble Gas, on the opposite end from Hydrogen, so those elements like Hydrogen, being closest, are most likely to gain or lose electrons to try and reach such a configuration.

Answer 4

Technically, yes -- or at least it was when I was taking chemistry.

(obtw -- that's a joke: Pluto was a planet when I was in primary school)

Chemically speaking, hydrogen is a metal. At most practical temperatures and pressures, hydrogen exists in the gaseous state (which is obviously quite unusual for metals); however, near 0 degrees K, hydrogen solidifies.

At normal pressures (a standard atmosphere is 760mm Hg), about 20.268 degrees K, hydrogen exists as a liquid.

Perhaps for reasons of tradition, under ordinary conditions, hydrogen is not considered an alkali metal.

Although it had long been the subject of theory, verification of hydrogen's metallic nature occurred serendipitously at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in March 1996, when and where a group of scientists produced (for about a microsecond) the first identifiably metallic hydrogen at temperatures of thousands of kelvins and pressures of over a million atmospheres (conditions believed similar to those within Jupiter).

From Wikipedia, "The Lawrence Livermore team did not expect to produce metallic hydrogen, as they were not using solid hydrogen, thought to be necessary, and were working above the temperatures specified by metallization theory; furthermore, in previous studies in which solid hydrogen was compressed inside diamond anvils to pressures of up to 2.5 million atmospheres, detectable metallization did not occur. The team sought simply to measure the less extreme conductivity changes that they expected to take place.

Many Experiments are continuing in the production of metallic hydrogen in laboratory conditions. Arthur Ruoff and Chandrabhas Narayana from Cornell University in 1998, and later Paul Loubeyre and René LeToullec from Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, France in 2002, have shown that at pressures close to those at the center of the Earth (3.2 to 3.4 million atmospheres), and temperatures of 100 K–300 K, hydrogen is still not an alkali metal. The quest to see metallic hydrogen in the laboratory continues, well beyond 70 years after its existence was predicted."

When I was in elementary school, I argued with my teachers that water was very slightly compressible; however, they and the textbooks stated water was not compressible.

I therefore had to chose between answering what I believed to be true (which would hurt my GPA), and the answer that I believed was wrong (which would help my GPA).

Today, we know that I was right: water is very slightly compressible; however, if you're stuck in a class where truth takes a back seat to dogma, give whatever answer the teacher is looking for. It may grieve your spirit in the short term, but all that matters to prospective employers is the GPA.

When you're a published scientist or a teacher/instructor/professor, you'll be able to influence the paradigm.

Answer 5

Well, sort of. H is in the same column as group 1 metals like sodium. It can replace these metals in a chemical compound. So you've got hydrochloric acid HCl and sodium chloride NaCl. But if you want to see hydrogen behave like a metal physically; shiny, solid, electrically conducting etc., you've got to subject it to high pressure.

Answer 6

i think of additionally that's because of the fact decrease than severe pressures (on the exterior of Jupiter case in point) hydrogen turns right into a steel. additionally, that's because of the fact the climate on the severe left area of the periodic table have purely one valence electron that they could share. it may additionally look in classification VII because it desires purely one electron to fill its valence shell. something heavier than Helium demands 8 electrons to fill the valence shell.

Answer 7

It is not a metal, it is a highly flammable gas. Its the first on the periodic table which is on the top left. then you have to go to the other side which the second one is helium.

Answer 8

because the periodic table is arranged by the atomic weight of each element not by the characteristics of metals, non metals, or anything...

Answer 9

Because it only has one electron in its outer ring and that makes it unstable like the rest of the elements in its column(which just happen to all be metals).

Answer 10

It is its own group.