Is Water Wet?

[Forever Indomitable]

Alright, let me play devil's advocate: wetness is a property exclusive to fluid. Fire isn't "burnt" because you can burn things without fire. You can't wet things in the absence of fluid and fire isn't burnt; it's flaming. Since atoms in water are "covered" in additional water, does that mean that water is inherently wet?

[Washington-Columbia]

No, Where is the water or moisture that is supposed to keep things wet? The water or the moisture just combines with the rest of the water instead of remaining on the surfaces of the object.

[The House of Hamid]

Out of curiosity: when you posted this thread, how high were you?

[Obrenia]

The correct analogy would be is fire burnING not Burnt, so yes, fire is burning, and regenerating with oxygen.

[Obrenia]

The correct analogy would be is fire burnING not Burnt, so yes, fire is burning, and regenerating with oxygen.

[Obrenia]

The correct analogy would be is fire burnING not Burnt, so yes, fire is burning, and regenerating with oxygen.

[Pangurstan]

An object that is fully submerged in water does not feel wet, and neither does your hand when underwater. This is because the sensation of a surface being wet is created by the difference between air and water on that surface. The boundary between water and air is the only thing that can be wet, so water is not wet.

[Orlesian States]

The correct analogy would be is fire burnING not Burnt, so yes, fire is burning, and regenerating with oxygen.

You really didn't need to post this three times.

[Cygnus Federation]

The correct analogy would be is fire burnING not Burnt, so yes, fire is burning, and regenerating with oxygen.

You really didn't need to post this three times.

Bad internet I assume, or in this case, really bad internet

Spamming the post button while it loads the confirmation message can result in it making several successive posts

Edit: In general, this question seems to summon confirmation bias to its presence

[The North Polish Union]

Asking if water is wet is a non sequitur. Technically, "Wetness" refers to the ability of liquids to coat solids. Some liquids like mercury generally do not effectively wet (most) surfaces. Similarly water does not effectively wet hydrophobic solids (think of water running off a raincoat). Wetness is not a characteristic inherent to a material, it requires a second material to be wetted. Water is neither wet or not wet, in the same way that it is neither soluble or insoluble with itself.

[Risottia]

Debate if water is wet on this thread.

There's nothing to debate about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propertie ... ce_tension

[TheKeyToJoy]

Debate if water is wet on this thread.

There's nothing to debate about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propertie ... ce_tension

Stop being a nerd water can be dry.

[Risottia]

There's nothing to debate about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propertie ... ce_tension

Stop being a nerd water can be dry.

Only if solid or supercritical. In that case it isn't referred to just as "water", but as "water ice" (followed by a Roman numeral) or as "supercritical water gas", as per IUPAC.

[Jewish Underground State]

Debate if water is wet on this thread.

There's nothing to debate about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propertie ... ce_tension

Sorry Wikipedia isn’t a reliable source
(Jk)

Anyway I don’t care what anyone says water is wet by the definition of what the word wet is.

It means that an object is covered in a liquid. Water is a liquid so it’s wet.

[Ifreann]

Is water real?

[Jewish Underground State]

Is water real?

Good question

[Cygnus Federation]

If we want bring states of matter into discussion, water is the name for the compound itself, as well as its liquid state. It being ice, doesn’t change the fact that it is made up of the compound known as water

[Free Ravensburg]

Is water real?

Yes. It is very much real. I own four of them

[Jewish Underground State]

If we want bring states of matter into discussion, water is the name for the compound itself, as well as its liquid state. It being ice, doesn’t change the fact that it is made up of the compound known as water

So ice is covered in water

This means ice is wet

[Cygnus Federation]

If we want bring states of matter into discussion, water is the name for the compound itself, as well as its liquid state. It being ice, doesn’t change the fact that it is made up of the compound known as water

So ice is covered in water

This means ice is wet

Ice, one of the forms of water, is wet because ice forms as a hexagonal lattice of water molecules, and a single molecule of water can’t be frozen, and so ice always has water molecules touching water molecules, thereby making it wet in the sense that it is touching water

[Farnhamia]

Debate if water is wet on this thread.

I think it is because if something is splashed in water it is considered wet. Therefore water itself should be considered wet.

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