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    				| 1. | Why Mendeleev could not assign fixed position to hydrogen in the table? | 
| Answer» (a) Hydrogen resembles alkali metals, i. e. like alkali metals it combines with halogen, oxygen and sulphur to form compounds with similar formula as alkalies. (b) Like halogens, hydrogens also exists as diatomic molecule and combine with metals and non-metals to form covalent compounds. | |