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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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..........................
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.
Water is H2O. 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom. Water is not formed when you mix hydrogen and oxygen. An explosive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen is formed. When you burn hydrogen in oxygen, the resulting compound is water. When you boil water the result is steam, or water vapor. Boiling does NOT separate the hydrogen and oxygen. An electrical current is needed to separate the hydrogen and oxygen. CAUTION: Do NOT put salt in the water to speed up the electrolysis of water. It changes the products. instead of hydrogen and oxygen, you get hydrogen, chlorine (gas), and sodium hydroxide. The last two are very poisonous.
Water contains hydrogen and oxygen. Sugar contains carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.
hydrogen and oxygen are the two elements which make up water
No. Hydrogen is too dangerous to be where humans live. A spark will generate a glorious explosion. After explosion, the product is water. You need energy to break up the water molecules to form hydrogen and oxygen gases again; the combination of hydrogen and oxygen is also explosive. The energy to break up the water is probably higher than what you can get from burning hydrogen with oxygen -- I did not do a calculation, but if it is untrue, then we should have been breaking up water molecules and not worry about rising gasoline price. So, recycling hydrogen is possible but impractical.
Yes. Ice is solid water. Water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen.
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No. When making water by burning Hydrogen in Oxygen (a very explosive reaction) is that 2 atoms of Hydrogen and 1 atom of Oxygen join together to form 1 water molecular - H2O.
Water is H2O. 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom. Water is not formed when you mix hydrogen and oxygen. An explosive mixture of hydrogen and oxygen is formed. When you burn hydrogen in oxygen, the resulting compound is water. When you boil water the result is steam, or water vapor. Boiling does NOT separate the hydrogen and oxygen. An electrical current is needed to separate the hydrogen and oxygen. CAUTION: Do NOT put salt in the water to speed up the electrolysis of water. It changes the products. instead of hydrogen and oxygen, you get hydrogen, chlorine (gas), and sodium hydroxide. The last two are very poisonous.
No, liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen would be rather explosive and in fact has been used for rocket fuel. Alternate answer: No, while water is comprised of Hydrogen and Oxygen, the two usually combine when in a gaseous form.
Any flame or electric spark will trigger this explosive reaction!
The chemical compound Water is made of two elements: Hydrogen and Oxygen. To get water you would need to perform a highly explosive chemical reaction. An example of this dangerous reaction occured with old style zeppelins that were filled with Hydrogen. So, the chemical formula of water is H2O and the reaction between Hydrogen and Oxygen is:Hydrogen + Oxygen --> Hydrogen OxideDo not attempt this reaction.
Because they decompose the water to pure hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is a flammable gas and the oxygen is the oxidizing agent that reacts together in an explosive manner.Caesium
very high temperature is needed to combine hydrogen and oxygen. at that temperature, water exists in gaseous form Oxygen exists as a gas in our atmosphere, because there isn't very much hydrogen in the atmosphere. If the Earth's atmosphere contained a substantial amount of hydrogen mixed with the oxygen, it would be an explosive mixture. Any spark would set it off. They the oxygen and hydrogen would combine to form water, and we would be left without enough oxygen to breathe.
Hydrogen and oxygen are the products of electroysis of water .
Water contains hydrogen and oxygen. Sugar contains carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.
Hydrogen and oxygen are the reactants and water is the product.
hydrogen and oxygen are the two elements which make up water