Water is wet claim false

Skip to main content · 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 ...

Liquid water is not itself wet, but can make other solid materials wet · Wetness is the ability of a liquid to adhere to the surface of a solid, so when we say that something is wet, we mean that the liquid is sticking to the surface of a material

In support of this assertion (for it is actually not an argument but a bald assertion) the article cites, you guessed it, a dictionary. [1] Here are the definitions offered by the New Oxford American Dictionary: It turns out the definition of “wet” as an adjective and as a verb (at least in this dictionary) agrees with their claim. At least it agrees with their claim that “wet” refers to a surface being covered or saturated with water.

Experimental results regarding the surface properties of Wenzel versus Cassie–Baxter systems showed the effect of pinning for a Young angle of 180 to 90°, a region classified under the Cassie–Baxter model. This liquid/air composite system is largely hydrophobic. After that point, a sharp transition to the Wenzel regime was found where the drop wets ...

In capillary action, water molecules are more attracted to polar tube surfaces (adhesion) than to each other (cohesion), pulling the liquid upwards. These properties allow water to spread and cling to surfaces, making them wet.

On a hydrophobic surface, the water’s ... property of water molecules in isolation. Scientifically, water is wet because it saturates and adheres to surfaces through the power of hydrogen bonding....

If we are to say water is wet we'd ... its still water just more than one atom of it. There is no real argument for if its wet or not but logically thinking it cannot be wet....

Many proponents of the opposite belief argue that water must be wet since it cannot be dry. “The earth is actually flat and of course water is wet,” said a person who is too ashamed of their idiotic comment to sign their name under it. The ridiculous argument fails to take into account the nuances that categorize a substance as dry or wet.

Though it is true that paint and cement do achieve liquid states, both actually consist of water and a dry component, just as in the prior examples. For paint, that dry component is pigment, while for cement, it is rock or sand. A third definition, which I found cited in a Quora discussion, states that wetness is the “replacement of area of the solid-air interface with a solid-liquid interface and is generally accompanied by an extension of the liquid-air interface.” Despite its complexity, this definition is essentially asserting that wetness isn’t even a property which can be achieved by a liquid, but instead by a solid in contact with the air.