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19 Nov 2020, 9:23 am

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19 Nov 2020, 9:54 am

I would like clarification about the post by Tempus Fugit.

(a) Does Canada have special dry water?

(b) Or is it just a picture of what happens if you mix water ice and dry ice and add some heat?

P.S. Some of the arguments assert water is not wet because "wet" means there is water on something, and you can't put water on water. But, typically, water molecules are in groups so every molecule of water would have water on it--specifically all of the other molecules. But, if you had one, single molecule of water, all by itself, with no other water molecules around, would it be "wet"? (Clearly it would be lonely, unless it was an introvert.)

P.P.S. If this thread is going to get to sixteen pages it really should branch out. Otherwise it will quickly be the same arguments being repeated incessantly, and that would be all wet.

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19 Nov 2020, 11:39 am

Wet Wet Wet

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19 Nov 2020, 11:45 am

Brictoria wrote:

I'm not entirely certain this thread went in the direction it was intended\expected to go in...

I posted it as a joke. Good to take a break from politics and do something a little fun.

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19 Nov 2020, 11:58 am

magz wrote:

Dry ice is not water.

How would you know? Are you a scientist or something?

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19 Nov 2020, 12:24 pm

Of course water is wet because if it was not wet it would be dry!

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19 Nov 2020, 12:26 pm

Tempus Fugit wrote:

I maintain that if you fill a cup with dry ice, you will have a cup of dry water after it melts.

No, it will evaporate. Dry ice consists of carbon dioxide, not water.

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19 Nov 2020, 1:35 pm

A Dutch person would read the title as "water is law".

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19 Nov 2020, 1:50 pm

Mona Pereth wrote:

Tempus Fugit wrote:

I maintain that if you fill a cup with dry ice, you will have a cup of dry water after it melts.

No, it will evaporate. Dry ice consists of carbon dioxide, not water.

It just seems evaporated because the water is dry. It's basically the same scientific principle as evaporated milk minus the milk.

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19 Nov 2020, 2:15 pm

One can actually make a powder which "resembles" dry water by encapsulating water in a silica coating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_water

The water inside is still liquid, though, so it doesn't really count...

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19 Nov 2020, 2:52 pm

This belief that "water is wet" is just another example of the "hive mind" that is so omnipresent on this site.

I am tired of being mistreated by all of you sheeple who have been indoctrinated by the media into believing that water is wet. Just because I am the rare person who is an independent thinker, and who has the courage to question the dogma that water is wet is no reason to bully me!

Ive HAD it! I am LEAVING this site! :evil:

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19 Nov 2020, 4:09 pm

I'm here for the WAWA (wet ass water, alright).

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19 Nov 2020, 4:35 pm

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Aw don't feel bad, you are the smartest person you are on earth and everyone else is intellectually dishonest.

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19 Nov 2020, 4:51 pm

WOW! This thread is educational!

I've learned that WAWA is actually an acronym. (I already knew it was a good spot to pick up a quick snack.)

And if you get "wet" enough (three) you get music.

Still a little unclear on whether water is wet, or not. But every time I touch liquid water it seems to be wet, and if I add some solid water it seems pleasant to sip it on a hot day. And touching water that is a gas or plasma seems like a really bad idea.

(Is it sixteen pages, yet??? :huh: )

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19 Nov 2020, 5:06 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

WE have had enough of your obvious agenda. Plus since you're from the temperate zone, you don't have any business talking about the wetness of water.

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19 Nov 2020, 5:44 pm

GGPViper wrote:

If it is then cut into a cube or made into tea, it subsequently becomes a rapper, but it only becomes wet in the latter case.

I see what you did there.

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