Why is water wet?
- Back in the old days, when water was where we needed to spend our time, touch was a lot more important than it is now. We as beings had to be immediately aware if we were going in or out of water. Therefore, the feeling of wet is a primal sensory reminder.
However, thereafter once we ascended onto the land and trees, the feeling of wet became a sensory reminder of something out of the ordinary; it is raining - get shelter, you fell in a creek - start swimming.
The reason it feels as it feels when water touches the skin is actually a complex electro-chemical reaction which works at amazing speeds. The sensory inputs are a combination of:
1. Your body's pH at that moment
2. The water's pH
3. Your body's temperature at that moment
4. The water's temperature
5. The atmospheric pressure
6. Molecular polarity
Ewan Sweeney, Swindon, UK
- Just look at the definition of what "Wet" is- I used websters- wet = "consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid" By definition water is wet because it consists of and contains liquid.
Angelo F, New York, USA
- Water is wet because it is a viscous liquid with a fairly low surface tension
Peter Twot, Leeds
- water is wet because it is sticky. It sticks to your skin but it is only sticky enough to hold a bit at most a drop of water and it goes slihtly in your skin and will eventually get soaked.
connor, diggle england
- All the above answers are solid on the liquidity or wetness of water - so to speak. But I will add that, water is 'wet', because that is what we call it. That is to say the sound we utter when attempting to describe a quality of water.
Teddy Mcd, Vanc. Canada
- Is there such thing a dry water?
Nancy, Luanda Angola
