this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
327 points (100.0% liked)

196

16216 readers
2244 users here now

Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.

Rule: You must post before you leave.

^other^ ^rules^

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
all 32 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm going to die on this hill that water is not inherently wet (and by extension oil is not inherently oily).

To say that something is wet, it needs two components: water and not water. You can say that a surface is wet because the water can be removed. If you remove water from water it's just less water. You can say that the container that the water is in is wet, but not of the water itself.

The same applies to oil as well.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And I will continue to assail your hill with; wet is a property that water has.

Wet is simply the surface tension balance of a substance. If a fluid sticks to somthing, it is wet. You can wet your brush, yes, but also wet a soldering iron, or wet every surface with superfluid. Wet refers to the conducting of fluid, capillary action, all the effects of surface tension adhering to something.

How wetting a substance is of another substance is usually measured by the angle a droplet makes upon contact. More sticky (adhesive) and less blobby (cohesive) means more wetting. Cohesion being simply self-adhesion means any fluid with surface tension necessarily totally wets itself, otherwise it's a gas. And since water is a cohesive liquid (with a rather strong surface tension), it is by definition wet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Water is sticky.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oil floats on water.

  1. Cover yourself in oil

  2. Wait for it to rain

  3. Fly

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oil floats on water.

  1. cover yourself in water

  2. wait for it to oil

  3. sink

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Particle man, particle man

Doing the things a particle can

What's he like? It's not important

Particle man

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Hi fellow TMBG fan.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

This water is lubricated

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I'm wet 😏

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

This is incorrect, oil is lighter than water so one instance is impossible.

Edit, I'm wrong about all of this, there is no instance where water is above oil, apologies.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Which instance is impossible?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

The one he imagined in his mind

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The one with water above oil.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

None of the four have water above oil

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You are quite right, I am wrong about everything I posted on this thread, apologies.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This water is upside down ukrainian.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lame joke about flag colors

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Ooh ok. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What happens if they're at 50/50?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Then the wet is oily.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

OOH! OOH! I have something prepared for this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

this oilwater is Ukrainian 🇺🇦

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Seething wet water denier

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

this is all moist

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

This is not as wet as I am.