Hydrogen behaves as an oxidising agent in its reaction with

Options

A. chlorine
B. nitrogen
C. sodium
D. sulphur

Answer

C

Explanation

It reacts with sodium to form sodium hydride in which sodium is oxidised from 0 oxidation number to +1 in NaH.
`2overset(0)(N)a+H_(2)to2overset(+1)(N)aH`