If pure hydrogen and pure oxygen are both very flammable, why is water not?
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What makes them flammable is that those atoms are highly reactive. They want to connect with other atoms very badly; they love hugs. With water, they are already connected to each other already and are nice and cozy hugging. They like to stay hugging and are actually hard to pull apart, so there is little chance they will run off to hug other atoms.
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