If the two are both highly reactive and easily flammable (like the Hindenburg disaster for example), how do they put out flames? Same question with Sodium and Chlorine, one being highly explosive when it touches water and the other being a deadly gas, but combined they make tasty rocks.
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Think of hydrogen and oxygen as opposite poles of a magnet. When you bring them near each other, they snap together, forming H2O. It’s this snap that releases energy, not the separate poles of the magnet individually. Similarly, it’s the coming together of Hydrogen and Oxygen that releases energy. Not hydrogen by itself or oxygen by itself.
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