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Grade 12Inorganic Chemistry

Why does hydrogen occur in diatomic form?

Profile image of sumit kumar
17 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of ashish kumar
17 Years ago

 

Dear Sumit,

The hydrogen atom consists of a single positively charged proton and the corresponding negatively charged electron. To be stable it needs to have two electrons in its first shell. So it forms a bond with another hydrogen atom to form the diatomic molecule H2

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