Is water wet ?

[the g man]

Is water wet ?

[heathfield]

Not always. Ice, and steam needn't be.

[Panic Button]

My Dad used to tell that if you put detergent in a duck pond the ducks would sink as their feathers would get wet.

[B00]

But is ice and steam water? Surely it's only water when it's at its liquid state?

[stewey]

Only in English-speaking countries.

[Imzadi]

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

[Octavius]

Wet is defined as the condition of being liquid or being covered in a liquid. A liquid is one of the main states of matter. It is a fluid whose shape is usually determined by the container it fills. When water is a liquid, it is wet. It is wet because of viscosity and because our sensations say so. We feel wetness and can often refer to it as watery thereby determining a state of wetness.

[B00]

So I was right then octavius?

sticks tongue out at stewy

Water is only called water because it's at it's liquid state, when it's ice it's called....well ice, so no longer water and the same for steam.

[stewey]

Hi, BOO. No...........my silly response was to the question, not to your answer. Anyway, I don't think that we should get steamed up over this question, because in the end run it will just be water under the bridge. Talking about moist stuff, we've got 3 inches of snow and it's still snowing.

[Octavius]

Are you sure you aren�t getting inches confused with millimetres stewey? A lot of men do!

J'mouille mes coudes,
mes coudes s'mouillent,
est-ce que j'mouille mes coudes?
J'mouille mes coudes,
mes coudes s'mouillent,
saurais-tu le dire?

Try saying that after wetting your appetite.

[B00]

rofl @ stewy and octavius!

Snowing? Where are you? It's a glorious sunny day here in Lancs.

[stewey]

Hi, guys. No it's inches!......we're supposed to be metric just like you, but I don't take much notice of it. I'm snow-bound about 30 miles east of Toronto. To appease the Metric Police I'll give you the temperature in Celsius: -28 with the wind-chill.

[B00]

Ahhhhhhhh, you're Canadian, explains alot ;-)

[Octavius]

Well you are ok on that one stewey. As you are referring to really cold weather it�s ok to talk in the scale of Celsius. If it was hot we would prefer Farenheit so we can say things like, �Phewee! It�s in the 90�s�. A much better emphasis than �it�s in the 30�s�. It�s a bit like the spin on political statistics really.

But at least it is snow and not that really wet rain that you get in Lancashire.

[heathfield]

Boo - ice is water in its solid state. 'Dry' stream is water in its gaseous state.

For Octavius

Stewey - it's not wet snow, by any chance?

[angeldraws]

oooh just had a moist moment there............