Why can’t we just make water by smooshing hydrogen and oxygen atoms together?

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Sure we can. It’s just we don’t normally have access to H or O atoms, as under standard conditions they occur as diatomic molecules: H2 and O2. You’d need to break these bonds first, which would require smooshing them at rather high velocities.

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