Hydrogen is combustible and oxygen support for burning. Hydrogen and oxygen give water then why water is not combustible?

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Solution

The property of a product need not be the same as that of its parent elements. As it is evident from the fact that hydrogen and oxygen are gases but water is liquid.

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