{"id":8976,"date":"2019-06-25T09:10:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T13:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=8976"},"modified":"2019-06-25T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T20:17:15","slug":"is-water-wet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/06\/25\/is-water-wet-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is water wet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"314\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/aw062519-1.jpg\" alt=\"Is water wet?\" class=\"wp-image-8974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/aw062519-1.jpg 314w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/aw062519-1-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><figcaption>Is water wet?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes. Probably. Apparently if you have less than 6 molecules of water, it doesn&#8217;t behave like water. At 6 or more. the volume of water begins to take on a 3D structure and exhibit the properties that we think of when we think of water and wetness (see <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/WaterDipole).\">bit.ly\/WaterDipole).<\/a> Whether water can be wet is more of a definitional argument that has no answer. If you believe this dictionary definition of Wetness (http:\/\/bit.ly\/WetnessDef), then water does in fact consist of liquid and is therefore wet. If you don&#8217;t believe it, then that&#8217;s fine, you just have to justify your answer. This is a case of language breaking down when it comes to actually describing our world and sensations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. Probably. Apparently if you have less than 6 molecules of water, it doesn&#8217;t behave like water. At 6 or more. the volume of water begins to take on a 3D structure and exhibit the properties that we think of when we think of water and wetness (see bit.ly\/WaterDipole). Whether water can be wet is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/06\/25\/is-water-wet-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is water wet?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-8976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8981,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions\/8981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}