Why isn't water flammable?

Subject: Why isn't water flammable?

Date: Wed Feb 16 16:14:20 2000
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Hydrogen burns quite easily, and oxygen permits burning. What, then, keeps 
water, made up of both hydrogen and oxygen, from being flammable?

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