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How Many Covalent Bonds Hydrogen Has

The number of covalent bonds that hydrogen has is known to everyone. A hydrogen atom has only one electron outside the nucleus. In order to achieve a stable state, it often shares electrons with other atoms to form a covalent bond.

In common situations, hydrogen forms only one bond. For example, in hydrogen (H ²), two hydrogen atoms each produce one electron, forming a bond together, and they are all stable to each other. For example, in water (H ² O), hydrogen is connected to oxygen, and hydrogen also has only one bond. This is because hydrogen needs to obtain one more electron to form an electron pair, so it can only form one bond.

However, there are no exceptions to everything in the world. In some complex compounds or under special conditions, hydrogen may also exhibit a different bonding state, but this situation is rare, and the common one is still a bond state. In general, under normal circumstances, the number of covalent bonds in hydrogen is mostly one.