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Question
Hydrogen is not a metal but still it has been assigned a place in the reactivity series of metals. Why?
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Solution
Hydrogen is not a metal but it has been assigned a place in the reactivity series of metals because like metals, it also loses electrons and forms positive ions, H+.
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