How many bonds can Hydrogen make? Recently I saw a video which told me that Hydrogen has a valency of 1, i.e, Hydrogen can only bond with 1 other atom. But since hydrogen wants a complete shell, it can have 2 covalent bonds with 2 electrons. Please explain.
Apart from some Group 13 weirdness, hydrogen can only make one bond. Covalent bonds require pairs of electrons and hydrogen can only have two electrons bound in one covalent bond.