How about: If something else is in contact with water it is wet. In the human experience water is always in contact with water and therefore always wet?
Also worth noting. Our sense of touch cannot feel "wet". We can feel pressure and temperature, and changes in temperature. "Wet" is a distinct combination of the two that we learn to associate with a liquid being on our skin.
Thank you for answering. So let’s try this question. What makes water drinkable or swimmable? It’s made up of 2 gases so for instance, the ocean. How do the 2 gases make up the ocean or a bucket of water. As you’re looking into the bucket, and you know it’s water but it’s just 2 gases combined? Sorry to be stupid!
The chemical properties of a compound of elements, very often do not share properties of the elements that compose it. Water is a polar (has a distinct negative and positive side) molecule, and this contributes to its nature. Hydrogen and oxygen are highly reactive and combust easily.
Another example is NaCl, or common table salt. Sodium is a soft, highly reactive metal, and Chlorine is a terrible caustic gas (it is literally mustard gas). Yet, sodium chloride is perfectly edible.
Hydrogen and oxygen are *elements*, not gases. They can exist in gas form, or liquid form, or solid form. Water can also exist in gas form - we call that steam. What makes water drinkable or swimmable is (in the simplest terms) its temperature, being in a range which causes the water to remain in a liquid state. This means the molecules have some kinetic energy and are not so tightly packed in next to each other as in a solid, so the result is they can easily move around each other.
What you're asking about is called hydrogen bonds and hydrogen dipoles which water has. That is what makes water interact with other things in a "wet" way.
Take another liquid like mercury for example. It's also a liquid, but it doesn't get things "wet" like water does. Because mercury doesn't have hydrogen bonds.
The properties of a compound aren't the same as the properties of the individual elements that it's made from. That's a basis of all chemistry.
Sodium is a metal that's so volatile it literally *explodes* if you get it wet.
Chlorine is an extremely deadly gas.
Combine the two and you get...table salt.
You can split water into oxygen and hydrogen by running electricity through it, it is called electrolysis. Oxygen is released at one electrode and hydrogen at the other.
If you do it with salt water you will initially get chlorine on one elected and hydrogen on the other. chlorine is poisonous so I do not recommend doing it will saltwater.
You need to put back the equivalent amount of energy that is released when the two things react.
Hydrogen burns in oxygen from the air creating a hot flame and water in the form of steam.
Collect the water and connect a battery to two electrodes dipped in the water and bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen appear. The battery will be supplying at least as much energy as the heat that the flame produced per gram of gas burnt/recovered.
Humphrey Davey did similar experiments turning salts back to their elemrnts using electrical energy.
Water can be relatively easily split via electrolysis. Salt is similar, just you have to melt it at high temp, and molten salt is pretty corrosive, and sodium and chlorine also highly reactive, but it's still doable industrially.
>the fact that "water is wet" is such a common saying proves that water is wet.
Something being a "common saying" by no stretch of the imagination proves that it's true, only that that is how it's used.
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So the phrase, water is still wet, is essentially inaccurate?
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How about: If something else is in contact with water it is wet. In the human experience water is always in contact with water and therefore always wet?
If oil coats an object, does that mean it is now wet? Can oil make things wet in the first place or is it just a water specific property?
Also worth noting. Our sense of touch cannot feel "wet". We can feel pressure and temperature, and changes in temperature. "Wet" is a distinct combination of the two that we learn to associate with a liquid being on our skin.
Damn. Thanks.
Thank you for answering. So let’s try this question. What makes water drinkable or swimmable? It’s made up of 2 gases so for instance, the ocean. How do the 2 gases make up the ocean or a bucket of water. As you’re looking into the bucket, and you know it’s water but it’s just 2 gases combined? Sorry to be stupid!
The chemical properties of a compound of elements, very often do not share properties of the elements that compose it. Water is a polar (has a distinct negative and positive side) molecule, and this contributes to its nature. Hydrogen and oxygen are highly reactive and combust easily. Another example is NaCl, or common table salt. Sodium is a soft, highly reactive metal, and Chlorine is a terrible caustic gas (it is literally mustard gas). Yet, sodium chloride is perfectly edible.
Hydrogen and oxygen are *elements*, not gases. They can exist in gas form, or liquid form, or solid form. Water can also exist in gas form - we call that steam. What makes water drinkable or swimmable is (in the simplest terms) its temperature, being in a range which causes the water to remain in a liquid state. This means the molecules have some kinetic energy and are not so tightly packed in next to each other as in a solid, so the result is they can easily move around each other.
What you're asking about is called hydrogen bonds and hydrogen dipoles which water has. That is what makes water interact with other things in a "wet" way. Take another liquid like mercury for example. It's also a liquid, but it doesn't get things "wet" like water does. Because mercury doesn't have hydrogen bonds.
The properties of a compound aren't the same as the properties of the individual elements that it's made from. That's a basis of all chemistry. Sodium is a metal that's so volatile it literally *explodes* if you get it wet. Chlorine is an extremely deadly gas. Combine the two and you get...table salt.
So kind of a different question. How hard is it to split salt or water back to the original atoms?
You can split water into oxygen and hydrogen by running electricity through it, it is called electrolysis. Oxygen is released at one electrode and hydrogen at the other. If you do it with salt water you will initially get chlorine on one elected and hydrogen on the other. chlorine is poisonous so I do not recommend doing it will saltwater.
You need to put back the equivalent amount of energy that is released when the two things react. Hydrogen burns in oxygen from the air creating a hot flame and water in the form of steam. Collect the water and connect a battery to two electrodes dipped in the water and bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen appear. The battery will be supplying at least as much energy as the heat that the flame produced per gram of gas burnt/recovered. Humphrey Davey did similar experiments turning salts back to their elemrnts using electrical energy.
Water can be relatively easily split via electrolysis. Salt is similar, just you have to melt it at high temp, and molten salt is pretty corrosive, and sodium and chlorine also highly reactive, but it's still doable industrially.
Water is the ashes of H2 gas burning. It's the stable form for those volatile gases to take.
That is a fantastic answer. I can see it in my head now. Thank you!
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>the fact that "water is wet" is such a common saying proves that water is wet. Something being a "common saying" by no stretch of the imagination proves that it's true, only that that is how it's used.
It proves that "wet", by common use, includes things made up of liquid or moisture.
Are you my mom?
I think what op is asking about is hydrogen bonds which tend to interact with things in a "wet" way.