• Question: Why is water wet?

    Asked by khughes08 to Hermine, Katy, Laura, Nathalie, Paula on 15 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Nathalie Pettorelli answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      42, the answer is 42 🙂

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      Paula Salgado answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      A great question… that I and apparently many people can’t answer…

      Will have to get back to you on that one… when some can explain it to me to! 😉

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      Laura Dixon answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Because its a liquid ? lol I’m sure there’s a fancier answer about molecules moving past each other at a certain rate and distance, etc. but I’m not the best one to answer that! 🙂

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      Katy Mee answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Water is wet so fish can swim in it 😉

      Or take your pick of these explanations:
      http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-1725,00.html

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      Hermine Schnetler answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Why is “wet” water? I think this is a matter of definitions. There are three states of matter: solids, liquids and gases. You know what the first one feels like, you are probably sitting on a “solid” chair right now. Take a deep breath, that’s what gas “feels” like – not much. Well what does a liquid feel like? You tell me? It’s a weird feeling, of slippery stuff, which you can’t hold. Well, we need a word for this – how about “Wet”?

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