Water known as the fire extinguisher.What is the possibility watere being the fuel to fire.
"Pure water"
[Physics] n way water can burn or cause fire
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Water known as the fire extinguisher.What is the possibility watere being the fuel to fire.
"Pure water"
Best Answer
Especially your emphatic addition of "Pure water" allows to answer this question in the narrow sense of the question as: 'No'.
In order for a substance to be the fuel to a fire it has to contain something that is reducible, i.e. capable of lowering its Oxidation Number. Such a substance is known as an oxidiser. Molecular oxygen ($\mathrm{O_2}$) is an archetypical oxidiser because its elemental oxidation number of $0$ can be lowered in chemical reactions.
But in water, oxygen is already at its lowest quantum mechanically allowed oxidation number, specifically $-2$. It cannot be lowered any further.
Water can contribute to a fire through other reactions like the reaction of water with reactive metals (like alkali metals, magnesium and others), which generates flammable hydrogen ($\mathrm{H_2}$) but that's not really the water itself contributing to the fire but the rather hydrogen catching fire.
Water itself can certainly not burn.