• Question: Why is water wet?

    Asked by Kate and Peckasso :) to Chris, Josh, Rebecca, Rob, Susan on 22 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Zealousy.
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      Josh Meyers answered on 22 Jun 2015:

      There are many answers to this question and most of them are bad jokes like ‘water is wet because it has a high moisture content’.

      Probably, wetness is the effect upon an object when a liquid passes over it.
      So when water runs over our hand, it feels wet.

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