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Old Thu Apr 26, 2007, 07:19am
Jurassic Referee Jurassic Referee is offline
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Originally Posted by bob jenkins
So, if hydrogen is flammable, and oxygen is flammable, why does the combination of two parts hydrogen to one part water put out fires?
Which also brings up the fact that because both hydrogen and oxygen by themselves are also inflammable, why do we have to have two almost similar words to describe the exact same physical phenomena?

Maybe we should have a poll to determine what one should be used......