Why is Water Wet?

[paarsurrey]

Why is Water Wet?

Water is wet as it is one attribute of it created by G-d in water.
Is it another aspect of science being gibberish at many things? Please
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[Onyx]

It's the ionization of the situation.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I really miss Cynthia.

 

[Magpie1978]

Oh please, don't tell me you guys never asked that question.

So my science otaku frienemies, I am curious. So tell me, why is water wet?

Why question these thing, rather than just accept it

 

[gnostic]

This is a pointless thread, started by a pointless person.

 

[gnostic]

I really miss Cynthia.

I don't.

I find her irritating, like a rash.

 

[The Emperor of Mankind]

Why question these thing, rather than just accept it

She's not here any more

Now for a more open question: who resurrected this thread and why?

 

[Acim]

Now for a more open question: who resurrected this thread and why?

Our best scientists are working on that answer. Which is why we will require lots more tax dollars to be spent on this noble research.

 

[Revoltingest]

She's not here any more

Now for a more open question: who resurrected this thread and why?

Someone was searching for "wet T-shirt", no doubt.
And my post popped up!

 

[Smart_Guy]

Darn, I thought she was back

 

[VioletVortex]

When we touch water, which is a liquid with a specific consistency (it varies slightly depending on the other chemicals in it), it interacts with our skin in a particular way that causes our nerves to sense it as a distinctive sensation. We've just labeled it as "wet". It has to do with the way it clings to, yet drips from, our skin.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

There is no "water", only wetness.

 

[Aupmanyav]

There is no wetness as well. That too is mind-created.

 

[paarsurrey]

There is no "water", only wetness.

Well, do you even exist? Please
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[Rick O'Shez]

Well, do you even exist?

Gawd! Something else to worry about!

 

[Milton Platt]

Oh please, don't tell me you guys never asked that question.

So my science otaku frienemies, I am curious. So tell me, why is water wet?

aren't all liquids wet by nature? I don't know, but is "wetness" a function of only one type of liquid?

 

[Sapiens]

Oh please, don't tell me you guys never asked that question.

So my science otaku frienemies, I am curious. So tell me, why is water wet?

Because it is not dry.

 

[paarsurrey]

aren't all liquids wet by nature? I don't know, but is "wetness" a function of only one type of liquid?

Mercury is a non wetting liquid as it does not wet the surface in which it is kept as the cohesion forces within the drops are stronger than the adhesive forces between the drops and the surface. Because of its high surface tension it doesn't wet most surfaces .it is analogous to water droplet formation on lotus leave.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-mercury-a-non-wetting-liquid
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[paarsurrey]

This is a pointless thread, started by a pointless person.

Yet one likes to give one's point of view.
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[Evangelicalhumanist]

I am not asking how is water wet, I am asking why is water wet. You guys keep giving me the hows.

There are all sorts of questions you can ask -- some simply do not make sense. Like asking, "how much does Thursday weigh?" (which is a syntactically correct question), your question is not valid because it is unanswerable. And why is it unanswerable, you ask? Because the very definition of "wet" is to be "covered or saturated with water or another liquid." Water is neither covered by nor saturated with another liquid. It is a liquid. Water is not wet, but rather wetness is a description of our experience of water in its non-frozen and non-vapor form.

Turns out there are such things as stupid questions.