Is Water Wet?

[Gugny]

A friend of mine on FB was saying that his family were insisting that water isn't wet; he disagreed.

 

I opined that water isn't wet; it makes things that it touches wet.

 

One of our mutual friends (a chemist) commented:  "Wetness is the ability of a liquid to adhere to the surface of a solid, so when something is wet, it means that the liquid is sticking to the surface of a material."

 

What say you?

Edited September 8, 2018 by Gugny

[Johnny Hammersticks]

When Chuck Norris jumps in a pool he doesn’t get wet...the water gets Chuck Norris.  

 

Does that answer your question?

[Soda Popinski]

 

 

[LeGOATski]

Water is constantly sticking to a solid. 

 

At every scale.

 

Think about it.

 

The water is the wetness.

[Chef Jim]

Water is not wet.  In it's liquid state it makes things wet.  

[SDS]

Is the bottom of the ocean wet?

[WhoTom]

1 hour ago, Gugny said:

I opined that water isn't wet; it makes things that it touches wet. 

  

One of our mutual friends (a chemist) commented:  "Wetness is the ability of a liquid to adhere to the surface of a solid, so when something is wet, it means that the liquid is sticking to the surface of a material."

 

Water molecules stick together (that's the principle behind surface tension), so by your definition, a water molecule is wet because it's touching another water molecule. Therefore, water is wet.

 

And since water can be a solid, the same logic applies to the chemist's definition.

 

QED

 

[ExiledInIllinois]

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody (or nothing, device, etc...) is there, does it make a sound?

[Gugny]

3 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody (or nothing, device, etc...) is there, does it make a sound?

 

Don't you have a drawbridge to raise, or something?

[ExiledInIllinois]

3 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

Don't you have a drawbridge to raise, or something?

Tow going upbound.  I am filling in for lowly operator... I have lots of disposable time.  No paperwork, data to do! 

 

Danke!

Try the veal!  I will be here all day to 20:00!  

 

 

????

Edited September 8, 2018 by ExiledInIllinois

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

Mead likes dry wine.   Does that count?

 

[ExiledInIllinois]

9 minutes ago, SDS said:

Is the bottom of the ocean wet?

In a SpongeBob toon it is!

 

?

[Chef Jim]

32 minutes ago, SDS said:

Is the bottom of the ocean wet?

 

Great question. Let’s do a poll to see who we choose to swim down there and check. 

[Gugny]

8 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

 

Great question. Let’s do a poll to see who we choose to swim down there and check. 

 

Poll???  Let's make a fundraiser out of it!

[Marv's Neighbor]

Does your dog bite?

[apuszczalowski]

Shouldn't this question be in the weed thread? Sounds like a good stoner question....

[WhoTom]

1 hour ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody (or nothing, device, etc...) is there, does it make a sound?

 

If a man speaks in the forest and there's no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

 

(Credit: Tom and Ray from Car Talk. And their answer was "Yes.")

 

[ExiledInIllinois]

I still haven't voted yet... Sell me people.

 

I am pulling a "Kavanaugh."

 

Wetness is not settled law.

[Johnny Hammersticks]

33 minutes ago, apuszczalowski said:

Shouldn't this question be in the weed thread? Sounds like a good stoner question....

 

I use rain-ex windshield fluid, and the water just beads off.   Therefore, I conclude that water isn’t always wet.  It depends on what it comes in contact with.

[ExiledInIllinois]

19 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

 

I use rain-ex windshield fluid, and the water just beads off.   Therefore, I conclude that water isn’t always wet.  It depends on what it comes in contact with.

Nice!  Very persuasive TeflonJohnny!

 

Yeah... And what about Teflon.  You can pour a gallon of water on it, it doesn't SEEM to get "wet."  Dry as a whistle. Rolls right off like a duck's... And speaking of that...