Give reasons why hydrogen resembles alkali metals?

<p><span data-teams="true">This is a short answer type question as classified in NCERT Exemplar</span></p><p><span data-teams="true">Hydrogen has electronic configuration 1s¹. On the one hand, its electronic configuration is similar to that of alkali metals in the first group of the periodic table, which have an outer electronic configuration (ns¹). As a result, hydrogen resembles alkali metals that lose one electron to become unipositive ions.</span></p>

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