Is a single molecule of water wet?

[disappoint]

Yes or no?

 

[DesiPower]

No

 

[Obsy]

Maybe.

And why no pole?

 

[Exophase]

No. An object is wet if it contains (some particular amount of) water. For an object to contain something there must be a clear boundary between the object and its contents. Water alone can't contain itself.

 

[waffleironhead]

Is he a dot, or is he a speck?
When he's underwater does he get wet?
Or does the water get him instead?
Nobody knows, Particle man

 

[Braznor]

'Wetness' as a quality is more of a sensation restricted to neurological interpretation than a chemical property of any form of matter or energy.

 

[TheELF]

A single molecule of water is hydrogen,hydro=water gen=birth ,it is the stuff that "gives birth" to water but is not water itself so it's not wet either.

 

[TheELF]

'Wetness' as a quality is more of a sensation restricted to neurological interpretation than a chemical property of any form of matter or energy.

It is one of the aggregate states so it is very much definable,but you need a lot of molecules to measure it not just one.

 

[Puppies04]

A single molecule of water is hydrogen,hydro=water gen=birth ,it is the stuff that "gives birth" to water but is not water itself so it's not wet either.

I think you are confusing atoms and molecules.

 

[Bock]

nope.

 

[Bock]

A single molecule of water is hydrogen,hydro=water gen=birth ,it is the stuff that "gives birth" to water but is not water itself so it's not wet either.

Please read some insightful information.
http://www.dhmo.org/truth/Dihydrogen-Monoxide.html

 

[TheELF]

I think you are confusing atoms and molecules.

Yup,partially,still a single molecule of H2O is gas, at best, and not liquid.

 

[Puppies04]

Yup,partially,still a single molecule of H2O is gas, at best, and not liquid.

Sorry, you are wrong again. Discussing somethings physical state is specifically describing the interraction between the different molecules. By definition one molecule of anything is neither solid lliquid or gas.

 

[DigDog]

what does wet mean?

 

[sdifox]

water is never wet

 

[Markbnj]

what does wet mean?

http://nautil.us/issue/25/water/ingenious-richard-saykally

 

[Ruptga]

No. An object is wet if it contains (some particular amount of) water. For an object to contain something there must be a clear boundary between the object and its contents. Water alone can't contain itself.

Prepare to have your mind blown.

OP's question is meaningless, because wetness isn't a valid attribute at the scale of molecules. We might as well ask what color protons are.

 

[ControlD]

Only after a glass of wine and a little Barry White playing on the sound system.

 

[cbrunny]

Prepare to have your mind blown.

OP's question is meaningless, because wetness isn't a valid attribute at the scale of molecules. We might as well ask what color protons are.

What colour are protons?

 

[Jeeebus]

Your mother is wet.

- Alky

 

[feralkid]

I can sell you dehydrated water in bulk.

Saves shipping weight.

 

[clamum]

Duuuude this is deep. *takes another bong load*

 

[Bock]

Prepare to have your mind blown.

OP's question is meaningless, because wetness isn't a valid attribute at the scale of molecules. We might as well ask what color protons are.

You should read that article you posted.

, each the size of a grain of sand, are surrounded by a sandy silica coating

 

[NoTine42]

The point of common soap (surfactants) is to break the surface tension of water, allowing the water to become more "wet" as it is now free to stick to the pollutants and wash them away.

If that is true, then isn't the smallest quantity of water the most "wet"?

 

[Arcadio]

If we're going to call things "wet" just because there are a few molecules of water on their surface, then we might as well think everything on the surface of the Earth is wet.