2007-11-16 17:47:48 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Swimming & Diving
lol, wat do u mean why is water wet? ..it just is...
2007-11-16 17:51:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why IS water wet? Is that what you meant? Four words and you couldn't put them in the correct order?
WET is a term to describe the feeling of ONLY water, not liquids. Dry cleaning does not use water, instead it uses liquid solvents and, therefore, can be called DRY cleaning. Liquid mercury is NOT wet, it is liquid and liquid is a term to describe a state of matter (solid, liquid, or gas) in which there is enough molecular activity to cause the molecules of the substance to bounce off of each other, creating enough space between the molecules that the molecules can no longer maintain a solid state and take on the shape of the container they are in.
Thus, water is wet ... water is a liquid ... but not all liquids are water so not all liquids are wet.
2007-11-17 06:45:53 · answer #2 · answered by academicjoq 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water is actually one of the least wet liquids in existence. It has a relatively high surface tension which means it beads more so than wets. Being a liquid the particles in question are only loosely linked at the molecular level which allows it to spread out with certain constraints; polar bonds are flexible only to a point.
That concludes my generalized physics lecture for the day, good bye now.
2007-11-20 03:42:31 · answer #3 · answered by 29 characters to work with...... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hydrogen+oxygen=water, a liquid. liquids are wet.
2007-11-19 06:30:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because when Humans were establishing a form of communication, they identified things with sounds we now call words. Somewhere long, long, long ago, a Human stuck his hand into the ground into a shimmering non solid spot on the earth, and said "Humm, Wet". Now if you want to know why he said that, I dunno. Ask him.
Dave
2007-11-16 19:16:40 · answer #5 · answered by sunloverinoregon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it is a liquid. all liquids are wet. now ask yourself why is water a liquid.
2007-11-16 17:57:29 · answer #6 · answered by Johhny Doe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BECAUSE WHEN GOD WAS CREATING EARTH HE SAID TO HIMSELF, I WANT WATER TO BE WET AND NOT DRY!! THAT'S WHY WATER IS WET. DUHHH!
2007-11-16 17:58:43 · answer #7 · answered by monique d 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
go Monique!!!!!!God created water to be wet
2007-11-17 12:50:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
apparently the two words cannot be separate, check out this def: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wet
and this one:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/water
hahaha.
2007-11-16 17:55:24 · answer #9 · answered by littleyellowbird 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because if it were dry you'd hurt yourself jumping into it.
2007-11-19 00:22:44 · answer #10 · answered by nycguy10002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because water has hydrogen in it!!!!
odd question though
2007-11-16 18:24:26 · answer #11 · answered by swimfreakmikey_2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋