When is water wet?

When is water wet?

This is not a trick question. ChoirI offer this question as a valid science; not a joke. The implication being that H20 has condition[s] rendering water not wet. Invalid answers are its conditions as solid, liquid, and vapor  as we all learned in chemistry., because wetness can be demonstrated in all three conditions. I mean wetness as a factor of construct, not merely temperature. I will say no more relative to clarification.

All answers will be entertained, but the win goes to the first contestant who answer the question correctly. I will confirm there is a singular correct answer, though an answer given I have not learned previously may be consulted for correctness if not the condition I have in mind as the correct answer. Appeal is allows given my response to you, I will respond to all replies.

You are free to inquire by whatever means are at your disposal other than asking me outright. 

Is there a prize? How about satisfaction of knowledge? Is that not worthy of competition?

The definition of wet is covered with water.

So just cover water with more water and it will get wet.

When it adheres to a surface of some sort.

Freeze it first.

Dr. Diana Glick,  professor and director of the Undergraduate Studies Department of Chemistry at Georgetown University.
says, “water isn’t wet because water is a wetting agent.”

Most scientists define wetness as a liquid's ability to maintain contact with a solid surface, meaning that water itself is not wet, but can make other sensation. But if you define wet as 'made of liquid or moisture', as some do, then water and all other liquids can be considered wet.

Water is only wet when as a liquid, it adheres to another surface, and that surface cannot be a gas, as a gas has no definable surface. A gas cannot be wet in the traditional sense because gases do not have a defined surface for liquid water to adhere to. However, water vapor can condense onto a solid or liquid, creating wetness when it transitions into a liquid state.

Clever, I've not thought of it in that manner, and thinking about it, the water beneath is already wet, so...  but, no, sorry, that's not the answer I'm waiting to see.

Nope, that's not it. Sorry.

I'm not sure that the dry water is really 'dry, so much as made small and separated by coatings so it cannot wet.

Water in a water balloon is still wet, even if the rubber balloon is not on the outside.

But I don't really know science.

No, when it isn't wet in the first place, that will not make it so.

Hadn't heard that one before, but, no, that's not it. Telling you why would give away the store.

Oh... you're so close just by that explanation, but not the root that I'm looking for. keep thinks and searching.

That's a very good analysis, but another material surface is not the root cause of water being wet. But telling you why that is would give away the store. Ain't gonna do it.

Then it's gotta be the tree falling in the forest thing.

How about, reality is experiential, the wetness of water is a sensation. so, water is wet when someone perceives it to be wet.

Somewhat related question back at you, what is the most disliked word in the English language?

When Chuck Norris jumps into a lake, he doesn’t get wet; the lake gets Chuck Norris.

The lake gets Chuck Norris to swim dry.

In the early years of the internet, I once decided to market "de-hydrated water." I sold a zip-lock bag with a label I produced: "De-hydrated water, Just add water" and added my business. name and email address. I sold the bags at something like $1.50, plus shipping. I actually sold a few; far too few to cover my production expense, which I wrote off as a business expense, because I was running a personal business at the time [still do], on which I paid income and property tax, licensing fees, etc. I received a lot of emails asking about my product. I couldn't believe the gullibility some people have, and still do.

Nope. No tree thing. It's legit.

As for most disliked word, without consulting my preferred search engine [not google] my personal favorite is "if." Anything following 'if' in a logic test must assume is not currently true, or the question would not be asked, and, therefore, 'if' cannot justify what follows as a 'then' expression.

According to Ladders [theladders.com:  https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/these-are-the-9-most-hated-words-in-the-english-language  ]

the most hated English word is: moist. This from a series of surveys Ladders did. I don't follow the reasoning, and I'd hold with my 'if' suggestion, but moist is many someones' suggestion.

Whatever [Ladder's 3rd most hated word] 

Good point, but doesn't that happen to everyone who jumps into an existing lake? Why Chuck Norris? I say "existing" because the Salton Sea in So. California  is virtually dry, but still called that.

It's moist, apparently people associate it with wet bodily functions.

Yes, a distinction without a difference. The question is "Why?"

Guys, thus can't be this difficult. I just realized, verifying my source [unnamed for reasons that ought to be understood] that "we," i.e. science, has known this for 28 years, almost to the day.  That's older than some of you. I remember it being announced,. so I've been around the block a few times.

Two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom bonded together and became water molecules.

How many such reactions does it take to fill all the water reserves on planet Earth?

Amazing.

So is a single water molecule in the centre of the Atlantic Ocean wet or not?

If your source is a New Scientist article from February 1997, then it is when it has at least six water molecules clustered together, because that is when it begins to behave like a liquid.

Nice. I thought it might be a number of H20 molecules thing, but I had no idea whatsoever how many. Answers #3, 6, and 7 also seem legit in the context of “when is water wet?” The OP would be better phrased “When does H20 behave as water?”

It is a Chuck Norris joke. Such as “When Chuck Norris slices onions, the onions cry.”

Because he squeezes them too hard.

I squeeze myself too hard.