When water is decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen, these gases cannot combine again to reform water?

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Camden Horn

3 October, 23:12

When water is decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen, these gases cannot combine again to reform water?

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Rishi House · Answer 1

This statement is false. When water is decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen; these gases are in a position of combining again to reform water. Water is a molecule consisting of one atom of oxygen bound to two hydrogen atoms. The atoms are joined by covalent bonds; however they have addition hydrogen bonds between the partial negative oxygen and the partial positive hydrogen atom.