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mostly off-topic but is water actually wet?

• buboard 7y ago
  Why yes i believe it's pretty wet, in its liquid and gaseous form. I in fact threw a bucket of water on 100 people and all of them agreed "i am wet"
  • ozzmotik 7y ago
    but does the fact that water transferred the state of being wet to a separate entity necessarily imply that wetness is an attribute that water possesses? as far as i can tell, something only becomes wet when water (or a liquid in general) is applied to it, and while i suppose you could make the argument that a liquid at an atomic level is constantly applying itself to itself, but i think that would be a painfully pedantic argument and also a straw man because you probably wouldn't make that argument at all. tl;dr wet is a state that is dependent on the application of liquid, not necessarily an attribute of the liquid itself
    • buboard 7y ago
      then the real question is: can wetness appear out of nothing? is it a conserved quantity?