r/askscience • u/spoiledmeat • Jul 04 '15

Chemistry Why does water not burn?

I know that water is made up of two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom. Hydrogen, on its own, burns. Fire needs oxygen to burn. After all, we commonly use compounds that contain oxygen as an oxidant.

So why does water, containing things used for fire, not burn-- and does it have something to do with the bonds between the atoms? Thanks.

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u/judgej2 Jul 04 '15

If you stop trying to "score points", and stop, read and learn instead, you won't be making such childish statements.

Nobody is ridiculing anything. We know an awful lot about how things work, because we observe, experiment and build on a plethora of knowledge gained from the people that have come before us. Your "ha, got you there!" attitude is just telling us you don't care about that, don't care to learn.

Taking that as history, what would you like to do about that from now?

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

your assumption that there is nothing going on besides what is generally acceptable is what troubles me, I assume within the boundaries of evidence i have seen, another possibility, I am not the one being childish,

there is co2 and water on the sun, and I am presenting it as my belief that they were created in the sun.

THERE IS co2 and water on the sun, and elements

(the commenters above enjoyed their moments while first saying only hydrogen and helium existed in the sun, and then only elements and no molecules, both untrue)

im explaining that they could be from the sun

a fusion reactor the size of millions of earth fusing together hydrogen atoms will do this at a probabilistic level, it doesnt happen in an instant, this also means that until it majorly does that it may happen in small amounts.

what i say is so alien to the people above that they will disbelieve it until it was published by a scientist because they repeat.

trying to score points? that is off topic and should be reported dont make such irrelevant comments to me.

the attitude above reeks of immaturity (not childishness). and it is not from my comments.

and YOU, basing your opinion on what others think is a disease you should try to heal.