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why is it that hydrogen and oxygen in their purest states are flammable and combustible but water is not combustible or flammable?
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why is it that hydrogen and oxygen in their purest states are flammable and combustible but water is not combustible or flammable?

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Because when the molecules bind their outer electron shell is balanced when they are alone they need one more electron to become stable
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