SOLUTION: If a liquid is water, then it is composed of hydrogen and oxygen. How can it be false.

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Question 662200: If a liquid is water, then it is composed of hydrogen and oxygen. How can it be false.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If a liquid is water, then it is composed of hydrogen and oxygen.
That conditional is true.  However its converse could be false:

If a liquid is composed of hydrogen and oxygen, then it is water.

That's because hydrogen peroxide H2O2 is not water
but it is composed of hydrogen and oxygen.

Edwin
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