Water refers only to the liquid. Which is by definition wet. The solid is called ice, the vapor is called steam. If you want to use a term to describe all three, call it dihydrogen monoxide.
All you on the other side desperately trying to prove something wrong to show how intellectual you
are. Water is the liquid form of H2O. It is always wet. Really that should just be accepted so
we can move on and discuss more important things. Yeah I know, not like Big Brother.
1) NASA is on a quest for "water" on Mars and their analysis is based on the discovery of the frozen
state of it, not finding the flowing liquid state of it. 2) This is pretty much a debate over
definition choice anyway, not really anything to lose sleep over. A science text, dictionary, and
Internet web source all might have slightly different definitions which feed either perspective, and
really none is more right than the other because there are many types of definitions for different
purposes. 3) Did you know there's a special type of sand which is coated with a silicate and when
you immerse it in water and pull it out it is completely dry to the touch? To the sand the water is
not "wet" at all, it behaves more like it's interacting with a gas. We had the sand recently at
work as part of Bring Your Kids to Work day experiment for their entertainment. I think it's
commonly called "Moon Sand" or something like that.
I've played with that sand before. We called it 'magic sand' in chem class, and it doesn't get wet because it has been coated in a non-polar substance, while water is a polar substance. And to the sand, water is wet, it is the sand that is not.
Water in its solid state is not wet.
Why is solid mercury still called mercury but we classify solid water as ice?
Technically ice is still H2O. If i throw a block of ice at you are you now wet? I bet not but i do
bet that you aren't in a very happy mood anymore. No matter what state water is in its still
dihydrogen monoxide No matter what. Its still a combination of 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom no
matter what. When one of those atoms leaves then we will talk but then again when one of them leaves
its no longer water.
If i look at a single molecule of water and one of ice there's nothing different one is just moving
faster then the other. Water and ice are the same thing one just has less energy.
Water has no solid state. It is a liquid. Mercury is a scientific name, that's why it applies to all states. The same goes for H2O and dihydrogen monoxide. But water and ice were probably named before the chemical properties were known. That's why they are the same substance, but different names.
Water is the common usage term for the chemical H2O in its liquid state. Wet is an adjective and is
therefore subjectively applied. Gasoline may be wet, the air may be wet, water may be wet if the
person using that term feels it is so. If the person using the term doesn’t feel it is so then
that day to that person water was not wet.
03 Aug 2008 18:02
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