Why can’t you just put put hydrogen and oxygen in a tank (with a 2:1 ratio) and make water? What would water be without both?
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You could on theory, but it’s a bad idea. They don’t automatically combust on contact with each other, but any small ignition source will set off an explosion. They used that reaction for the Space Shuttle main engines(the three on the back of the shuttle itself); so the main exhaust was actually steam.
If that chemical ratio wasn’t held, you’d get something like hydrogen peroxide, or water with left over hydrogen or oxygen depending on the way things went down. If you’re really unlucky, the extra oxygen in the reaction would start consuming the container as a fuel…as the Space Shuttle found out on a few tests.
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