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William Lee Jolly
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Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley. Author of The Synthesis and Characterization of Inorganic Compounds and others.

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Diagram highlighting hydrogen's chemical properties, showing its atomic number (1), symbol (H), electron configuration (1s1), atomic weight, crystal structure, physical state as a gas at room temperature, and classification as a nonmetal.
Hydrogen (H), a colourless, odourless, tasteless, flammable gaseous substance that is the simplest member of the family of chemical elements. The hydrogen atom has a nucleus consisting of a proton bearing one unit of positive electrical charge; an electron, bearing one unit of negative electrical…
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