hydrogen is combustion oxygen help combustion but water helps to extinguish fire
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There is a difference between mixture and compound. At the end of chemical combination the form of substance changes completely. Its properties become different from the properties of the constituent elements. The constituent elements of a compound can not be separated easily. Accompanying diagram gives an idea of how an atom of oxygen bounds strongly with two atoms of hydrogen. Each atom of oxygen has six electrons orbiting around it but still has room for two more electrons. If suitable electrons of some other substance are available then oxygen accepts them and forms a permanent bond. A hydrogen atom has one such electron. Since it has only one electron, two atoms of hydrogen fill that gap with their two electrons. This bounding of atoms of oxygen and hydrogen elements creates a chemical H2O, i.e. water having entirely different properties. Bounded atoms of oxygen and hydrogen no longer retain their original properties.