All About Hydrogen

The word hydrogen is from the Greek terms hudo'r and gennan which means "water" and "generate".

The average for the atomic mass of a hydrogen element is 1.00794. The letter to describe the element is H. The atomic number for hydrogen is 1.

Although there is one valence electron in the atom of hydrogen, there aren't any electrons in the first and second shell in the atom. Hydrogen is mostly found in big balls of gas, also known as stars, and water.

Located in the first column and in the first row is the hydrogen element. There are multiple elements very similar to the hydrogen element because they are all located in the first column and have the same valence electrons. Those elements are sodium, potassium, rubidium, and lithium.

Hydrogen is used in chemical uses as well as for balloons.

As most elements can, the hydrogen element can form naturally occurring compounds with:

naturally occurring compounds with hydrogen

• Hydrogen Bromide
• Hydrogen Iodide
• Hydrogen Oxide
• Hydrogen Fluride
• Hydrogen Chloride

Once the element hydrogen was found it was a gas, that when burned transformed into a liquid, which just so happened to be water. The person who discovered this element was Henry Cavendish, who found it in the year 1766.

Hydrogen is singlehandedly the most abundant element, this is stated because this element takes up around 75% of the universes elemental mass.

Citations

• webelements.com
• rsc.org
• environmentalchemistry.com
• elementalmatter.info
• education.jlab.org