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uberfreeza@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When water touches water you get more water, not wet water

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  • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    thats because water is already wet 😂

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    • EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Water can’t be wet. Wetness is a property that water gives to something else.

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      • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        like water

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• DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• CTDummy@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It threw me at first too. Helps to think of it as wetness being an interaction between a liquid and solid. Water makes things wet, it’s isn’t itself wet.

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  • ProtoShark@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So only solids can be wet?

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    • CTDummy@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’d have to ask a physicist. I would be surprised if you couldn’t make other liquids “wet”. The solid analogy helps with conceptualising an interface, one material on another. I suppose you could make water wet, by freezing a block and then splashing said block with water but that doesn’t equate to it being wet, if that makes sense.

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    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wetting is a rather complex topic. Basically, yes.

      Not all solids can be wetted. Wax, for example: water beads up on a waxed surface; it does not actually wet the surface.

      Not all “wetting” involves water. Soldering and brazing involve “wetting” base materials with a molten filler metal. Dripping molten metal on the base material does not necessarily “wet” it either: the molten filler can “bead” just like water on wax. When it solidifies, the filler metal is not bonded to the unwetted base metal.

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    wet containing moisture or volatile components

    Water is wet. The fact that this is an argument is ridiculous.

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    • finley@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This describes very specifically how water makes other things wet. Nowhere, does it describe water making itself wet, because it can’t. Wetness is a property that water can give to other things, not to itself.

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        moisture wetness caused by water

        water is wet. water contains moisture, because water is moisture.

        Or you can go the chemical route, which is so eloquently put by Professor Richard Saykally:

        they’d say, “Strong tetrahedral hydrogen bonding!” But that’s the correct answer. That’s what makes water wet.

        gizmodo.com/what-makes-water-wet-1713082349

        Or if you’re more into videos you can watch an entire lecture on it. vimeo.com/11854837

        Because water is fucking wet.

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• Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tru fax

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