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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Pasted · Answer 1 · 2018-04-09T20:08:27+0000

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