Wikijunior talk:The Elements/Hydrogen

"When hydrogen burns, it produces water."
The chapter says, "When hydrogen burns, it produces water." I would very strongly suspect that water could only form when burning hydrogen in an environment with oxygen, that if we tried to burn hydrogen in an oxygenless environment, no water could possibly be produced. Ought this line be augmented? Regards, allixpeeke (discuss • contribs) 03:03, 28 January 2015 (UTC)


 * If it needs fixing, might one say "When hydrogen burns in air, it produces water."? Or would this be confusing?


 * There is some lingering uncertainty in my mind whether such a fix is needed. I'm fairly sure "burn" implies a rapid exothermic reaction, but uncertain whether it implies a reaction with oxygen.  Which raises the question of whether hydrogen has a rapid exothermic reation with something other than oxygen in the absence of oxygen.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:08, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

that's helpful thx