wet containing moisture or volatile components
Water is wet. The fact that this is an argument is ridiculous.
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CTDummy@lemm.ee 4 days agoIt 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.
tyler@programming.dev 4 days ago
finley@lemm.ee 3 days 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.
ProtoShark@lemm.ee 4 days ago
So only solids can be wet?
CTDummy@lemm.ee 4 days 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.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 4 days 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.