How do you tell if something is wet? You take something dry (not wet) and touch it to the supposedly wet thing. Is the dry thing now wet? If so, the thing you touched with it was also wet.
Now, apply that same logic to water. If I take a dry towel and touch water with it, the towel will be wet. Therefore, the thing I touched with the towel (the water) is also wet (but now slightly less wet because of the towel).
And…? I mean, water is still wet, right?
World will be better off the day every one of them experiences that loss.
Ackshually, water isn’t wet. Water makes things wet. 🤓
That implies that water can’t make water wet.
Because it can’t.
“Wet” is a transitive property; here’s why.
How do you tell if something is wet? You take something dry (not wet) and touch it to the supposedly wet thing. Is the dry thing now wet? If so, the thing you touched with it was also wet.
Now, apply that same logic to water. If I take a dry towel and touch water with it, the towel will be wet. Therefore, the thing I touched with the towel (the water) is also wet (but now slightly less wet because of the towel).
Wetness is a liquids ability to maintain contact with a solid object. Scientifically, water is not wet.
https://scienceinsights.org/why-isnt-water-wet-the-science-explained/
https://biologyinsights.com/is-water-scientifically-wet-the-science-explained/
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/is-water-actually-wet-scientists-reveal-the-answer/articleshow/121693126.cms
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/is-water-wet