JEE Main Chemistry question

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Hydrogen has a tendency to gain one electron in order to acquire helium configuration. It thus, resembles:

(A)Alkali metals
(B)Noble gases
(C)HalogensCorrect
(D)Alkaline earth metals

Answer: (C)

Solution

By gaining a single electron to complete its duplet (matching helium's electron configuration), hydrogen behaves analogously to halogens, which gain one electron to complete their octet and achieve the nearest noble-gas configuration — both

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