• Question: Why is water wet?

    Asked by penguin123 to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 15 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Niall Crawford

      Niall Crawford answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      Something being wet is defined as either having water in it or on it. Seeing as water has water in it technically, then it is wet. Water is also hydrophilic, which means it is very attractive to water (by contrast, oil is hydrophobic, so it repels water at all costs).

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