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Hydrogen is not a metal but it has been assigned aplace in the reactivity series of metals.Explain.

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Despite not being a metal, hydrogen has been assigned a place in the reactivity series of metals because, hydrogen has a tendency to loose electrons and get converted to $H^{+}$ ion which is similar to the property exhibited by metals

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