is water wet ???????

Question

how do we know if water is wet or not? the truth is we will never know . we onlyt think we know because when WE touch water WE become wet as with anything that touches it but to itself how do we know if it classes itself wet??

no i aint thick and if u dont like the question dont answer it fool !!!!!!!

Answer 1

wet is a relative term. Scientifically, it has to do with the degree of surface strength of the droplet. The droplet surface tension determines the strength. If the surface tension is broken, the water molecules are less tightly bound, thus the water is wetter. Socially speaking you are right, wet is only if we perceive the touch of it to be so. However, consider the ice cube. Can it be wet? it is water.

Answer 2

You are correct in that human perception is a philosphical matter. Your question resembles existentialist queries such as, if a tree falls in a forset and there is no one to hear it, does it make a sound?

'Wetness' is the term used to describe an object or person having water on its surface. Water itself is not 'wet'. It only becomes wet when it is present on the surface of a solid. As water is usually present on the surface of a solid, on earth where there is gravity all water on earth could be said to be wet. However, water in space that floats in a vacumn is not wet unless it touches a solid.

However the fact that water is a liquid at room temperature is a matter of chemistry and can be seen as a fact as we now understand it.

Please try to avoid the temptation to answer your own questions in future.

Answer 3

How do we know water is wet, and are absolutely sure that it is? Well we make the definition of the word "wet" meaning covered with or soaked in a liquid....Therefore by definition of the word "wet" we know that water is wet.


Entry: wet
Pronunciation: 'wet
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): wet·ter; wet·test
Etymology: Middle English, partly from past participle of weten to wet & partly from Old English w[AE]t wet; akin to Old Norse vAtr wet, Old English wæter water
1 a : consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid (as water) b of natural gas : containing appreciable quantities of readily condensable hydrocarbons

Answer 4

No. Water can go in many different forms. Ice as a solid witch is not wet. And water vapour as a gas witch is also not wet.

Answer 5

water is not wet but a substance that is a source of being wet because what is in your self cannot be the same as what you can but what is in your self gives the potential to do what you are doing

Answer 6

We only know its wet by touch as we feel it as wet. But then you could go on and say how do you know the sun is hot? Because well feel it. How do you know wind is cold? Wool is soft? Ice is cold? Its all due to our human senses and brain transmissions that allow us to know exactly what is what.

Answer 7

i can only guess that the definition of wet is either.
any liquid that can be absorbed.
the frictional value of a substance
or the definition of wet came directly from the properties of water
r question really souldnt be if water is wet a better question is what is the definition of wet

Answer 8

if something makes us wet on touching it, then i think its necessary for that substance to be wet. so i think water is wet.

Answer 9

if wetness is psychological and we associate water with wetness then water is wet. makes sense to me,

Answer 10

stacey i can see were your coming from ?? but have you ever heard of water on the brain i think your question just drowned itself??