Eli5 – how can water be made of hydrogen and oxygen?

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Liquid water – made from two types of gas. Makes no sense to me, whatsoever. Water seems to be one of the strangest substances and we completely take it for granted that, apparently, it’s made of gas!

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Like the other guy said, it just depends on the substance’s properties, there is also water as a gas, water vapor, and water as a solid, ice, it’s just that at the temperatures we’re usually in it’s a liquid, same thing with its components, liquid and solid hydrogen and oxigen, thing is you won’t see those unless you’re at extreme temperatures.

Once these two elements form a water molecule their properties change and now they have different boiling and freezing points, and it just happens that at our usual temperatures water is liquid.

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