Water is formed as a result of the combustion of hydrogen. In simple words, water is what you get when you burn hydrogen. So, water doesn’t burn because, in a way, it has already burned.

You get ashes when you burn paper; but when you’re burning hydrogen atoms, you get water. Just like you can’t burn ashes any further (as they’re all burnt out), you can’t burn water either!

References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidizi...
https://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/proj...
https://web.archive.org/web/201806052...
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/forest...

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