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Elements of Water: Hydrogen - 2 Oxygen - 1 Both elements are a gass. Gasses, while in their gas form, cannot be wet. In order for there to be water, Hydrogen and Oxygen must be binded through and electrical charge while in their gas form. Thus water is not wet, because it is made up of two gasses that cannot be wet to make water itself. Water is the factor in which items become wet, but since water is water, and in order to be "wet" you must be covered in water, and an item cannot be covered in its own, water is not wet. 464 days ago
I cannot believe I just read that. It made me laugh a lot, thanks. Though I don't think this is a serious debate, your answer appears to belie my belief. An excellent example of getting it nearly right, and yet oh-so wrong. An atom of Hydrogen on its own is not a gas. An atom of Oxygen on its own is not a gas. A molecule of H20 is not, on its own, a liquid. (look up what makes a gas and a liquid for why) When you have more than one atom of hydrogen (same for oxygen) at room temperature it forms a gas. When you mix molecules of H20 together at room temperature they form a liquid. When you mix hydrogen gas with oxygen gas, they do not form a liquid, they form a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen gases. However, when hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms are bonded together (as you so nearly got it) to form molecules they are no longer two gases, but a single mixture of H20 molecules, or water. Where did you study? Your teacher needs a slap. 464 days ago | Tagged As: It's not dry is it
I'm absolutely stunned that you are trying to argue that water is not a liquid. At standard temperature and pressure, water is a liquid; that is a fact! Arguing this will only make you look very very silly. It doesn't matter whether hydrogen and oxygen are in gas form at standard temperature and pressure. When they form to make water (firstly becoming H2O molecules, then combining to form water), they become a liquid. Here is the standard definition of wet: wet Audio Help /wɛt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[wet] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation adjective, wet·ter, wet·test, noun, verb, wet or wet·ted, wet·ting. –adjective 1. moistened, covered, or soaked with water or some other liquid: wet hands. 2. in a liquid form or state: wet paint. 3. characterized by the presence or use of water or other liquid. 4. moistened or dampened with rain; rainy: Wet streets make driving hazardous. 5. allowing or favoring the sale of alcoholic beverages: a wet town. 6. characterized by frequent rain, mist, etc.: the wet season. 7. laden with a comparatively high percent of moisture or vapor, esp. water vapor: There was a wet breeze from the west. 8. Informal. a. intoxicated. b. marked by drinking: a wet night. 9. using water or done under or in water, as certain chemical, mining, and manufacturing processes. Look closely at number 2. ...in a liquid form or state: wet paint. Last time I checked (although, you might beg to differ with every person in the world who has half a brain), water is a liquid. 464 days ago | Tagged As: liquids are wet
Ice is not wet. Ice is a solid, not liquid. Presumably, the 'wetness' you're referencing is the H2O that has warmed up to its liquid state. This is similar to how steam is not wet. You will get condensation once the steam moves from a gas to a liquid state, but the gaseous state of H2O is not 'wet'. 39 days ago | Tagged As: liquids are wet
If Chuck Norris wants the water to get wet, the water will get wet... 462 days ago | Tagged As: Chuck Norris
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But it doesn't say the water is dry. Waterless is, as you quote "devoid of water" but the water that was once there isn't waterless; it is still water. If something is devoid of water it is dry, if something is covered in water it is wet, but that doesn't say that water itself is wet or dry. As I said in my previous post, water is water, and if something is itself, then it is not covered in itself. For instance, if you take a single droplet of water, it is what it is. It is neither wet, nor is it dry. Wet is "covered in water". Dry is "devoid of water". But since water is neither covered in itself, nor is it devoid of itself, then it is not wet or dry. And since the question to the debate is "Is water wet?" then my point is proven that it is not wet. 463 days ago | Tagged As: Water is Water
Wet: -covered or saturated with water or another liquid : she followed, slipping on the wet rock. -cover or touch with liquid; moisten No, water is water, when water touches something that is not water, the thing that the water touches is wet. I'm pretty sure wet is a word to describe something that isn't usually wet. Like burnt. If you're calling it burnt then I think you are implying that it is not in it's natural state. A rock in it's natural state is hard and sometimes course. When it's not it may be wet, cut, smoothed... get it? 462 days ago | Tagged As: Water is Water
Water is a result of the bonding of three atomic particles, each not wet (two hydrogen, one oxygen) and the collection of those compounds into however large a group is chosen (e.g. in a bottle, pool, lake) the interaction that each compound has with the others around it is classified as a liquid because they move loosely and without a structure. at an atomic level there is nothing that is "wet" like someone said earlier (in so many words), when water coats something it is then wet because its state has been altered by the contact with water. in conclusion water isnt wet 67 days ago | Tagged As: No
•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.' 264 days ago | Tagged As: No
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