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

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It requires energy to break chemical bonds, and it releases energy when we form new chemical bonds.

You can lower the amount of energy required to break the bonds of the hydrogen and the oxygen by pressurizing them, but it still requires that thermal energy /a spark to get the process to occur.

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