Is water wet?

[Reefeo25]

Water is not wet. It wets other things. And dry ice is not wet. It is sublime.

Good one!

 

[maxxwellbaby777]

Oh

 

[Carandae]

I will grant that a singular molecule of water would not be wet, but the cohesive nature of water would make it so that any more than that would wet each other.

 

[Zarky]

No, liquid water itself is not wet, it makes other objectives wet because the liquid sticks on the surface - what we describe as wet.

Oldest beginner question in any chemistry course I think.

This! My mind immediately went to grade school chemistry. Glad I got to use it for something finally lol

 

[Reefeo25]

Good one!

Dry ice is capable of sublimation but saying that it is sublime means something else and is an opinion.

 

[Reefeo25]

"Objectives"?
I think you meant to type, "objects."

Objectives can not be made wet. They are not tangible.

 

[Tony Montana]

It depends... When, where at what atmospheric pressure and at what temperature...

Wenn hier einer die Ana nass macht bin ich das!

 

[Reefeo25]

The ice in my cooler is wet.

 

[ff89]

Water is a liquid, liquids aren't 'wet'. Wet is a descriptor used to describe the permeation or coating of a liquid on an otherwise dry object.. hence making it wet..

wetness is just an arbitrary measure for how wet something is :3

I don't think I've said wet so much, it now looks misspelled lmao

 

[Reefeo25]

Water is a liquid, liquids aren't 'wet'. Wet is a descriptor used to describe the permeation or coating of a liquid on an otherwise dry object.. hence making it wet..

wetness is just an arbitrary measure for how wet something is :3

I don't think I've said wet so much, it now looks misspelled lmao

Water is a gas, a liquid, and a solid.
Solid water can be wet as it melts.

 

[ff89]

Water is a gas, a liquid, and a solid.
Solid water can be wet as it melts.

Here's me thinking it was called ice when solid and steam when gaseous.. X3

 

[Bloit]

So, the general definition of "wet" is:

Consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid (such as water)
(source)

Ignoring the obvious "Consisting of" case,
Considering the fact that every molecule of water in any quantity of water is covered with liquid-phase water molecules...

Yes. Water is wet by more than one definition of the word.

And anyone who says "no" is just a pedantic nitpicker.

 

[yg54g423f432wffsdf]

There are wetter fluids!