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THE data presented by Dash1 in a recent article relating hydrogen to the halogen series could well be used to show a similar relationship to the carbon family: with hydrogen as with the elements of Group IVb the valence shell is exactly half filled (or half empty), and hydrogen has the highest boiling point in its horizontal row of the Periodic Table. Furthermore, its electronegativity is very close to the electronegativities of the carbon group elements.
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Dash, H. H., Nature, 202, 1001 (1964).
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HAWES, L. Hydrogen: a Very Light Member of Group IVb. Nature 206, 188 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/206188a0
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