why is water wet? why is it blue? where did it come from?

Question

i'm a 14 child with lots of questions about the world so could you try to answer nicely plz..... the world all used to be one thing yea no seas n stuff... so when it broke where did all this water come from and why so much? only lakes and stuff would be there ands that certainly couldnt fill all the seas.....help me..

Answer 1

It is wet because of the combination of hydrogen and oxygen. H2O is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen, this is what makes it "wet" or liquid. It is blue because the sky and ocean reflect off of each other, the sky is blue, therefore the ocean is blue. As for where it came from, it came from God as everything did. Hope this answers your questions :)

Answer 2

When the earth was first formed, all the water that is now in the seas was as steam in the atmosphere as it was so hot. As it cooled, precipiation occured and the water fell as rain. What I think you're refering to is when all the land was one landmass called Pangea, which came millions of years later. It was essentially a huge island, surrounded by water, which has now broken up into the continents. The water in the seas was always there - it didn't come from anything. Water is wet because it is a liquid - all liquids are what we describe as "wet". It's a liquid at room temperature because of the spacing of the individual water molecules at this temperature. Any colder, and they get closer together and become ice, and hotter and they get further apart and become steam. Water isn't blue, it's clear. The reason the sea or large bodies of water appear blue is becuase it reflects the colour of the sky. Occasionally, algae (microscopic plants living in water) grow to huge amounts, which can make the sea appear green, or even red.

Answer 3

Be careful, you've got some very silly answers here. Its true that water is clear but someone put the water is blue because the sky is blue and they reflect off each other - well that's ridiculous. You might as well say that's why the sky is green in the daytime. Oh and if you ever want to understand anything you're going to have to reject all arguments that include God. What they mean is we don't know how so why not just say God did it - well fine, but thats worthless unless you can then explain HOW god did it. Water is 'wet' because of bonding forces between water molecules - at least, thats why its a liquid. You have to remember that 'wet', like 'warm' is a subjective term depending on how something is perceived.

The amount of water on the Earth may increase incredibly slowly due to rocky meterorites but I feel most of the water must have been here when the earth formed - it wouldnt have been liquid at the very beginning because the earth was too hot but it was in our atmosphere and as the surface cooled water will have rained down - and what a rain it would have been! It probably lasted decades!

A few books on geology or the origins of the earth might be useful for you. Please be careful of those books on religion. If you believe in it then by all means consult them on moral grounds (though then you'd need to skip the immoral stuff) but when you want truth, look for secular or atheistic scientific works.

Answer 4

Good questions, but I suggest you do web searches to get answers, or for general background get good books, it is not always easy to sort the wheat from the chaff here.

Not all liquids are wet, wetness is leaving liquid on something dipped into it. For instance, mercury is liquid but it is not wet, it does not leave a film of mercury on something dunked into it. Water molecules bind very tightly to each other. This causes a few phenomena, including surface tension, and wetness.

Pure water is indeed clear, though often sea water or pond water will be colored by minerals or algae in it. Despite what some here say, water does appear blue because it reflects the sky. (and the sky is blue because...)

I believe much of our water did come from space - comets are to a large part water. A quick google search says some is from comets, some is from other debris, and some was formed by organic chemical reaction in the early atmosphere. But the amount of water on eath now is considered to be pretty much fixed.

Answer 5

Wet is a description we use to describe substances like water, it could have been any word... but wet was the one settled on to describe liquids. As for being blue, fill a glass from your kitchen tap....if it is blue, then don't drink it! Its clear, all water picks up it colour from its surroundings and from whatever is suspended in it. Streams tend to be browns or greens, rivers often look grey or brown. The North Sea is usually grey, the colour coming from the sky reflecting in it. Water exists in a cycle, it evaporates, condenses and re-forms.

Answer 6

water came from a chemical reacton that occured at the begining of the world itself. its the source of all life on earth.
water is wet because it isnt dry. the bonds between its molecules are such it is liquid, hence its wet.
it isnt actually blue. water that you see in lakes and seas etc. reflects the sky which is blue...the sky is blue because of a phenomena known as the raman effect. im 16 so its all good. i know what its like to have many questions...
:-)

Answer 7

Sorry dont know the answers to the others, but I can tell you that water isnt blue, it is clear. The sea is blue because it is the blue sky reflecting on it, that is why on a dull day the sea looks murky.

Answer 8

1. Why is water wet? Water is wet so that the fish and other ocean, lake and river creatures can move through it with fluent ease. Friction is not your friend when you are trying to move. We need to be able to drink. We need for boats not to sink. We need for our plumbing to work. This is why water is wet.

But, really, why is water wet? Water is wet because our sensations say it is so. We feel wetness. We get out of a pool and we are dripping, uh, you know. We take a shower and we're, um, you know again.

The question of why is water wet cannot be answered with regular science methodology, but can be answered in Zen Physics. Water is wet because this is the nature of water. The nature of rock is to be hard. The nature of grass is to be green. The nature of water is to be wet. To take away from its true nature is to destroy what is and thus water is not water anymore. It may be ice, but it surely is not water. Water begets wetness. Wetness begets slipperiness. Slipperiness begets falling. Falling begets a long and painful hospital stay.

2. Sunlight collides with air, scatters blue wavelengths so sky is blue. Water is blue to our eyes because of the reflection from blue sky.

3. Water comes through rain->Mountains->falls->rivers->finally it reaches oceans

Answer 9

its clone of your hair, once you get out the bathe, you hair is really darket than known even as its moist.....it does that to each and every thing even as water receives in between some thing (like the threads in a blouse) it makes the article seem darker untill the water dries off

Answer 10

1. water is wet, due to your bodys skin.
2. water isn't blue, its transparent.
3. it didn't come from anywhere. its just like saying what came 1st, the chicken or the egg.