If fire feeds off of oxygen(O), and there is oxygen in water (H2O), how does water extinguish fire?
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If sodium is highly caustic and chlorine is a deadly poison, how can we eat salt?
A molecule isn’t a combination of the properties of its constituent atoms, it has its own unique properties that might be nothing like them. One of water’s properties is it doesn’t burn easily. In, water is the opposite of burning, it is one of the things that is produced when anything containing hydrogen burns.
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