Why does water put out fire even it is made of oxygen that can develop fire and hydrogen that is an explosive gas?

Answer 1

Water is what is known as a compound; that is, a completely different substance made out of different base elements. Compounds often have strange behaviours that their elements do not normally have. For instance, hydrogen sulfide is made of hydrogen gas (an odorless explosive gas) and sulfur (an odorless yellow metal), but in combination it produces something which stinks of rotten eggs!

For water to contribute to a fire, it would have to be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen. This occurs only during electrolysis. This is, however, one of the reasons why you should not throw water onto an electrical fire!

Answer 2

The bonds between the hydrogen and oxygen is too strong to be destroyed by combustion.

Add: The chemical properties of water are different from the properties of hydrogen and water separately. Therefore, water does not support combustion as oxygen does, and water does not explode as hydrogen does.

Answer 3

Water is not a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen; it is a compound in which hydrogen and oxygen have combined to form molecules of a new substance with its own properties. It does not have the same properties that hydrogen or oxygen have in their elemental states. In fact, burning hydrogen or a hydrogen compound with oxygen will produce water.

Combustion is a redox reaction (short for reduction-oxidation) in which oxygen oxidizes some flammable substance while that substance reduces the oxygen. In water, the oxygen is already reduced and the hydrogen is already oxidized. The energy that fire would release has already been released. So, water will not support combustion.

When added to a fire, water does two things. First, it displaces oxygen, not allowing it to come in contact with the burning material. Second, water, which is very good at absorbing heat, robs the fire of the heat it needs to sustain itself.

Answer 4

Because water beats fire, fire beats grass, grass beats rock, Rock beats electric, Electric beats water.

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or it has something to do with the fact that when they are linked they share electrons and this changes the properties of both hydrogen and oxygen :D

hydrogen is gas because it is not stable ..so in presence of o2 it accepts it to get stabilised so it is flammable.but water is already stable one... i guess this is fact

Answer 5

because in water their is 2H and only one O so when we through water into the fire H stop the O to react and without O burning cant take place only because of that when we through water into the fire hence, the fire is extinguished.

Answer 6

Water does not ordinarily burn because of the massive amount of energy required to break the chemical bond between Hydrogen and Oxygen. If enough heat is added to break apart this bond, then the...bond is broke and it changes into gases..........................

Answer 7

Water doesn't catch on fire. Water only evaporates into the air. Since water is a liquid, it turns to a gas. To find out more, you Google it.