Question

help me to understand that hydrogen is a metal or non metal as in periodic table it is mentioned neither it is a metal nor non metal and also not a metalloid im confused because sometimes it gains one positive charge by leaving one electron and sometime it gain electron to complete its outermost shell ?

Answer 1

hydrogen is a non-metal....
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Answer 2

hydrogen is a nonmetal and its atomic number is 1 so sometimes it gains positive charge by leaving electron and it will gain another electron to complete its first shell(k shell).

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