Is water really wet?

also, water is already wet, so if you pour water on water, it doesnt get wetter, it just adds more mass to it. just like me with the ladies

 

You didn't answer my question tho.

If water truly was wet, you'd be able to describe it as such, even as a single molecule
e.g. "a magnet is magnetic"

I'm still confused as to how you believe water molecules can absorb other water molecules. They aren't monkeys in a barrel
The fact you put "absorbed" in quotations makes me believe it's not the textbook definition of absorbed, which is what I was asking

 

I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I AM CURRENTLY GOING TO COLLEGE FOR WATER STUDIES. I KNOW MORE THAN SOME DARN RADIOLOGY MAJOR.

 

Well lets see. The noun definition of wet as you describe is a liquid that makes something damp. Well. Making something damp with include those adhesive and cohesive forces so sure. I suppose you could by the definition you're describing.

That's a pretty good way of putting it actually! Thanks!

 

What I got from @HelixSpiral is that a single water molecule by itself is not wet, however it has the ability to make other water molecules wet.

They do not absorb one another they form hydrogen bonds, this allow 1 molecule of water to bond with another, meaning that 1 molecule can make another molecule wet.

idk if thats right but eh fuck it

 

My definition of absorbed: 2 things becoming one

Your definition of absorbed: 1 thing latching onto another thing

The actual definition of absorbed: "take in or soak up (energy, or a liquid or other substance) by chemical or physical action, typically gradually."

Which is closer :thinking:

Also I'm not arguing that water makes things wet (aside from itself). The noun definition is referring to something that is already wet, e.g. "I rang out the wet of his shirt"

 

If that's your definition of absorbed, then your t-shirt example didn't absorb anything. It didn't become "one" it's still only held in the t-shirt through hydrogen bonding. Not covalent.. or even inonic bonding. It's literally attached the same way to the t-shirt as water molecules attach to other water molecules.

 

Python's about to get banned.

 

One is the wrong word. If anything I mean homogenous

 

Still wrong. You can't have a liquid be homogenous with a solid.

 

How do black holes, gravity, magnets, string theory, quantum computers, and quantum entanglement work

 

Save it for next thread.

 

You see, before we get into the question of "is water wet?" We must dive deeper in and ask ourselves what is the definition of "wet?'

Water isn't wet. Wetness is a description of our experience of water; what happens to us when we come into contact with water in such a way that it impinges on our state of being. We, or our possessions, 'get wet'. A less impinging sense experience of water is that it is cold or warm, while visual experience tells us that it is green or blue or muddy or fast-flowing. We learn by experience that a sensation of wetness is associated with water: 'there must be a leak/I must have sat in something.'

The reason it feels as it feels when water touches the skin is actually a complex electro-chemical reaction which works at amazing speeds. The sensory inputs are a combination of:

1. Your body's pH at that moment
2. The water's pH
3. Your body's temperature at that moment
4. The water's temperature
5. The atmospheric pressure
6. Molecular polarity

New scientific information suggests that water doesn't behave as a liquid until after there are more than six molecules. For everyday purposes, there is much more than that, so until the exact relationship of the water to itself and to other substances can be proven by scientific means, then either answer to the question, why is water wet, whether it is or is not, is entirely philisophical and as long as there is evidence to support either theory, or rather no evidence to disprove either of them, then either answer is correct based on your own individual opinion and evaluation of the evidence that is at this time present in the scientific community. So, by the definition of wet, which is the condition of being covered or soaked in liquid, then water isn't wet, it just makes other things wet.

Ty Internet...

 

why are you people spending so much time on this debate wtfff

 

yea water is wet dumbass its water

 

For something to be wet, it means you can dry it. So for example when you pour some water on a table, the table is wet, when you take a towel and remove the water the table is no longer wet.

For water to be wet, you need to be able to remove it, but when you remove water from the top of water, you will end up without water, there-for water can not be wet.
The ocean bottom, or the pool itself is wet, because it is filled with water on top.

 

here's some wet water

is kool aid wet tho

 

Water is clearly not wet.

 

okay so people come to me and say water is not wet. They use this moronic example of "if u put water on a table it is now wet" Most tables have a polyurethane (or something similar) type of seal, making it so the wood cannot get wet.

Okay, but does that mean it is not wet? Hold up, let's look at a trusted definition. I think we can all agree that the Merriam-Webster dictionary has been around for more than 150 years. Based on their definition: something is wet if it consists of, contains, is covered with, or soaked with a liquid? So the table isn't soaked. Is it covered with water? Yes. Does it contain water? No. Does it consist of water? In a way. So by definition the surface of the table is wet indeed.

What does water consist of? Water. (or two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen, which makes water.) Does water contain water? You bet it does. Is water covered with water...YEAH! Is water SOAKED with water? OF COURSE IT IS, it's water, nothing but it. AND IS WATER WET? YOU FUCKING GUESSED RIGHT, IT IS WET.

okay, so ted, you've got something with this "for something to be wet, you would have to be able to dry it." Well, that's partly true. You cannot dry water. You never can. It will always be wet. You can rid an object of water, and it will no longer be wet. But you cannot rid a liquid of itself, specifically water. Let's look at the definition of dry..... Dry means when something is free of liquid. Is water free of itself? No... so it ain't fucking dry. The second definition says not being IN or UNDER WATER. WHICH IS WET, NOT DRY.

and apparently u can dry water, but it doesn't count.

Spoiler: yall are dumb fo real

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_water apparently u can dry water, but scientists say 95% of each dry water droplet contains wet water.

But if you're still such a smart one and you think water is not WET, tell me is water DRY? No. Don't even try to prove that it is dry.

Just to back up this "is water dry?" statement....Dry is a physical property of matter. Things can only be DRY or WET. It has to be one or the other.

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