Why is water Wet ? im doing this for extra credid for my bio class plz help?

Answer 1

Not all water is wet... there is, of course, dehydrated water. See link below for a free sample (I just sent for one myself!)

Answer 2

Water is wet only between 32-212 degrees (depending on altitude). The crytal lattice that is formed during freezing locks the atoms together so that they only vibrate back and forth. This does not allow them to slide across each other like they do in a liquid. In a gas, they are, of course, not locked and do everything they can to avoid each other because of their extremely high energies. In liquids, the energy is at just the right level to allow some attraction but not too much energy to repel each other like a gas. The answer lies in the definition of a liquid. Back to the question. Is water actually wet? It takes two molecules to slide over each other. One molecule isn't actually wet...it's just another molecule. I could be off a bit since this is what's left from a Biology class 18 years ago. Back then teachers in my school still believed Darwin was an idiot..lol

Answer 3

Each molecule of water has properties of both cohesion (sticking together) and adhesion (sticking to something else). You cannot separate these two properties. Look at a pan of water. Se the edges of the water as it touches the side of the pan. The edge of the water appears to climb a little distance up the side of the pan. No illusion, it really does. That is a balance between the water trying to adhere to the pan side and trying to cohere with adjacent molecules of water. Therefore, water adheres to your skin, and at the same time as it drips off the ends of your fingers it forms rounded droplets on its way to the drain.

Answer 4

Hydrogen bonding. With such a low molecular weight (18 amu), water should be a gas at room temperature. The hydrogen bonding is strong enough to make it a liquid, and thus, wet.

Answer 5

Any liquid feels wet depending upon two properties:
Cohesion and Adhesion..
They are, respectively, property by which two molecules of liquid tend to stick to each other (Cohesion),
and by which a molecule of liquid sticks to the container walls...(Adhesion)...
Simply,,
if Adhesion > Cohesion =====it will be sticky to walls and hence will be wet.
if Cohesion > Adhesion =====iot will tend more to stick to itself and will not be wet..e.ge. Mercury.
Good Luck.
Hope this pice of information finds use to you...

Answer 6

It is a misconception. Water isn't wet. Other things are wet once they have been exposed to water.

Answer 7

It's because of a special compound in water called dihydrogen monoxide.

Answer 8

Easy. Water comes only in three phases.

Vapor: aka steam
Liquid: aka water
Solid: aka ice

Oh yeah, its also found in beer.

Answer 9

Because water is a solvent.

Answer 10

moisture?