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Oxygen is very flammable. Hydrogen is even more so. So why doesn't water burn?

Asked by AstroChuck (37609points) December 29th, 2009

As you can tell, chemistry is not my strongpoint. But it seems to me that if the components of water are flammable then water itself should be as well. Obviously this isn’t the case. Why not?

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