Why hydrgen and oxgen make water instead of gas?

why hydrgen and oxgen make water instead of gas?


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OronD
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I am surprised no one answered you.  There is something wrong in your question: If you flow Hydrogen gas and Oxygen gas to a close chamber you'll get steam not water !.  So it's all a matter of temperature.  If the temp is over 100c you get gas, if it's below it you'll get water.  The explanation is far two complicated to bring it here (hint: it reffers to the annomally of water and the bridging effect) and requires good  background in chemistry as well. 
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Good question: at room temperature hydrogen and oxygen are gas, yet water is liquid. The two hydrogen atoms are rather tiny and light compared to one atom of oxygen, so it is indeed surprising that adding so little to oxygen - which is gas - produces a liquid. Consider that oxygen comes in pairs of two atoms linked - in fact a molecule of oxygen is heavier than a molecule of water !

 

Im afraid I do not have an answer for this, but I am curious to find out myself 

 

 
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as seen in comets water in space/hard to belive that earth aquired all that water from comets and volcanoes. By what process is water manufacture in space.   Oxygen and hydrogen is need to make water ( temperature and perssure)

Was there an other route for water to get here on earth?

 
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