Does hydrogen have mostly metallic properties?

Question

does hydrogen have mostly metallic properties? please explain...

Answer 1

No,e.g. it can form hydrides and is gaseous at room temp which certainly isn't a property of a metal. But ya, you can find lots of its property which sugget it to be metal .

Answer 2

Hydrogen is a bit of an anomaly because it behaves like an alkali metal chemically but like a halogen physically.

For example, hydrogen forms 1+ ions like alkali metals but it follows the state of matter and colour trends of the halogens. Halogens start as being solids at the bottom of the group (astatine and iodine) then bromine is a liquid, and chlorine and fluorine are gases. Hydrogen fits well with this trend if it's at the top of group 17. Halogens also bcome lighter in colour as you go up the group. They're black at the bottom then move turn brown then dark red then green then yellow. A colourless gas (i.e. hydrogen) would fit in well with this trend too.

Answer 3

Hydrogen (pronounced /ˈhaɪdrədʒən/[1]) is the chemical element with atomic number 1. It is represented by the symbol H. At standard temperature and pressure, hydrogen is a colorless, odorless, nonmetallic, tasteless, highly flammable diatomic gas with the molecular formula H2. With an atomic mass of 1.00794 amu, hydrogen is the lightest element