User:ShawnShifflett/sandbox

When you're standing outside on a hot summer day do consider yourself dry or wet? Most people would for sure say dry. Why do some people believe they aren't wet while they're in water? If you're dry standing outside on a nice summer day, then you are wet while in a swimming pool or surrounded by a body of water. Some people argue that water cannot be wet but can cause something to be wet.

Liquid is considered wet. If water is a liquid then water is wet. Water itself is wet. Wetness is a feeling and if you feel water, water is wet. There's arguments saying that once you're in water you're still "dry", but once you come out of the water or take something out of the water then that's when the you or the object is wet. Water is H2O surrounded by thousands of other H2O molecules, so even if it could be true that you are "dry" in water, you're still touching parts of other water so you are wet. For example if you out your phone in a bucket of water the water will damage it because it's wet! Now your phone is in the bucket of water (it's wet), once you take it out you will physical see that your phone is dripping water because it's wet in and out of the bucket. Another example if you put your hands in a pool or something with a great amount of water, your hands and fingers will become prune/wrinkle. The major reasoning for your hands and fingers to begin getting prune/wrinkle is so you can grip things better under water. Why? Because things under water are wet!

Water is wet. There's physically no way that you can be dry when you jump in a pool. You can never be dry in the pool and then wet once you get out, once you jump in you're wet. Just like before you won't say you're wet on a nice dry summer day. You or the object is either wet or wet when water is touching it. Water itself is wet. There's a great debate if water is wet or dry and even the highest of scientist still studying to figure out if water is wet or not. It's pretty much 50/50 when you ask people if water is wet. But one day everyone will know that water is wet itself and once an object is in it, it is then wet.

Cites:

Gallagher, Brian. “Ingenious: Richard Saykally - Issue 25: Water.” Nautilus, 11 June 2015, nautil.us/issue/25/water/ingenious-richard-saykally.

"Is Water Wet?". Debate.Org, 2018, https://www.debate.org/opinions/is-water-wet. Accessed 1 Oct 2018.

"Why Is Water Wet?". Planet-Science.Com, 2018, http://www.planet-science.com/categories/under-11s/our-world/2012/02/why-is-water-wet.aspx. Accessed 1 Oct 2018.