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If hydrogen and oxygen both burn, then why if they are combusted to form water, does this not burn?
Originally Answered: If oxygen feeds fire and hydrogen is explosive, then why is water not combustible?
Great question! I actually asked this exact same question 4 years ago when I started highschool. Surprisingly, my teacher at the time (who minored in chemistry) was unable to give any answer better than “it just doesnt”
The reason (in short) is because water has “already burned”
The long answer takes a little more time to explain…
Any chemical reaction is just the exchange of electrons, often creating and breaking bonds, changing the properties of the reactants into something different, and usually more stable, which is called the product. Whenever you combust a hydrocarbon, for example methane (CH4) are setting up a chemical reaction that reacts oxygen with your hydrocarbon (in this case Methane) you get the products carbon-dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O). The balances equation looks like this.
CH4 + 2 O2 → CO2 + 2 H2O
But this is only the combustion of a hydrocarbon. You are wondering about Hydrogen. That is a much easier equation
2 H2 + O2 → 2 H2O
(H2 because hydrogen is a diatomic gas)
So as you can see, water is just hydrogen that has reacted with oxygen to be in a more stable state. This is why you can rest assured that the water you are going to drink later won't explode spontaneously in your stomach tonight.
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Originally Answered: If oxygen feeds fire and hydrogen is explosive, then why is water not combustible?
Great question! I actually asked this exact same question 4 years ago when I started highschool. Surprisingly, my teacher at the time (who minored in chemistry) was unable to give any answer better than “it just doesnt”
The reason (in short) is because water has “already burned”
The long answer takes a little more time to explain…
Any chemical reaction is just the exchange of electrons, often creating and breaking bonds, changing the properties of the reactants into something different, and usually more stable, which is called the product. Whenever you combust a hydrocarbon, for example methane (CH4) are setting up a chemical reaction that reacts oxygen with your hydrocarbon (in this case Methane) you get the products carbon-dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O). The balances equation looks like this.
CH4 + 2 O2 → CO2 + 2 H2O
But this is only the combustion of a hydrocarbon. You are wondering about Hydrogen. That is a much easier equation
2 H2 + O2 → 2 H2O
(H2 because hydrogen is a diatomic gas)
So as you can see, water is just hydrogen that has reacted with oxygen to be in a more stable state. This is why you can rest assured that the water you are going to drink later won't explode spontaneously in your stomach tonight.
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Water is a compound formed by the chemical combination of hydrogen and oxygen. So it is different from oxygen and hydrogen from its properties
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