Is water wet?

[Aliquido]

Please don't take this too seriously, its supposed to be a silly thread so please don't turn this into British parliament

[AlamoVampire]

Water wets but does not wet itself.

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[kerbiloid]

Only liquid water (known as liquid water) is wet.

Solid water is unwetted until it had been molten

[Ryaja]

The dictionary definition of wet is: Covered or soaked with a liquid, such as water. so theoretically since water is covered in water it is wet, unless it is a single molecule.

[LHACK4142]

19 minutes ago, Ryaja said:

unless it is a single molecule

but is that molecule wet?

It isn't exactly covered with a liquid, but it may be soaked... googling the definition of soaked just gives an unhelpful loop saying that a soaked thing is wet.

[Superfluous J]

If a single molecule of water is not wet, then what about 2 molecules of water? I mean, if I had a drop of water on me I wouldn't say I was wet. Somewhere between 1 drop and being submerged in water is when I would become wet, and similarly somewhere between 1 molecule and an ocean, you could say that water would be wet.

It's like the "how many rocks are in a pile of rocks?" If you have a pile of rocks, and remove a rock, it's still a pile. Until some point that pile of rocks vanishes and becomes just some rocks.

Many conundrums here.

[Nazalassa]

According to 'surface sample' in 'water':

    ⁶⁶ [Water] appears to dramatically increase the surface humidity of anything it touches. ₉₉

[bobjonesisthebest:D]

water is not wet

[Superluminal Gremlin]

You will never know if water is wet because if you put a wetness detector in water to find out if water is wet the wetness detector will immediatly become wet and invalidate the test  

[Rutabaga22]

The 'Water is wet because molecules on molecules is water soaking a molecule' and it's argument of 'somewhere the water goes from "drops on a molecule" to "wet molecule" ' sounds like the very funny concept me and my friends call the puddle limit. There is point where either a puddle is unable to continue to sustain itself and it balancing out to becoming a minor body of water. Like, at some depth of a pit you can fill it up and it will stay a body of water, but at any depth below that it will not sustain itself.

[Minmus Taster]

On 11/1/2022 at 5:04 PM, Ryaja said:

The dictionary definition of wet is: Covered or soaked with a liquid, such as water. so theoretically since water is covered in water it is wet, unless it is a single molecule.

So now lava is wet? my life has been a lie after all...

[Ryaja]

33 minutes ago, Minmus Taster said:

So now lava is wet? my life has been a lie after all...

Yes, it is so is any liquid 

[kerbiloid]

4 hours ago, Minmus Taster said:

So now lava is wet?

You are not a troll.

Spoiler

 

[SSTO Crasher]

Consider this, “wet” is a perspective, we can only tell if something is wet if we can observe evidence of such, but we can only argue either point of wet or non-wet about water because we can’t determine, and therefore since our ape brains can not immediately determine, we have to get into abstract thought. Therefore water is neither wet nor dry, as the typical properties of wetness can not be observed nor applied.

Edited January 30, 2023 by SSTO Crasher

[Abel Military Services]

In chinese, wet is 湿, and water is 水. 

If you look at them, you'll see 湿 has a part that looks like 氵. It means water. But, 水 doesn't has that part. 

So, wet has water, but the water isn't wet. 

Sorry for my bad English. 

[AlamoVampire]

On 11/2/2022 at 8:39 PM, Ryaja said:

Yes, it is so is any liquid 

Oil is not wet. Its why deep frying is a dry cooking method. Likewise as i said, water wets but it isnt wet. More precisely:

Why can't water be wet?

Since the word wet is defined as being saturated with a substance, it is impossible for water to be wet. Water can saturate things and can also be saturated by other substances, but it is impossible for it to be wet.
 

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[kerbiloid]

The Deutsch call the weather "wetter". So, they think that it's wetter when raining. Thus, the water is wetter than nonwater.

Edited February 6, 2023 by kerbiloid

[Zozaf Kerman]

@Aliquidosaid don’t turn this into the British parliament :skull:

[lajoswinkler]

In broad terms, state of being wet means containing adhering liquid. Not "molecules of a substance that is liquid at standard conditions", but actual liquid material, otherwise wet would be synonymous with moist and it isn't.

It doesn't have to be water, either. Mercury will wet gold, but it won't wet glass.