Is Water Wet Or Dry ?

is water wet or dry okay today I'm going to be taking on the question that has been taking the internet by storm lately and causing the best of friends to become the bitterest enemies when they argue about it is water wet 

so to me this seems like a pretty simple answer but I've heard some pretty good arguments on either side so I'm going to finish this question once and for all and show you if water is really wet or not okay we can all agree that if something is not wet its dry so dry is the lowest level of wetness that you can have and then after that if something is not quite dry 

we can call it damp so when something is damp it has a little bit of water in it but it's not really wet yet and then after damp I'm gonna put moist and then finally after moist I'm gonna put wet but I'm not gonna stop there after we say something is wet if it gets even more wet we have different terms to describe it - for example when something is more wet 

Is Water Wet Or Dry ?

than it was before we'll call it soaking wet or even sopping wet and it even keeps going from there from there instead of sopping wet you can even get to dripping wet so dripping wet is when something is so wet the water is just dripping off of it so all of these are just words and they're not very scientific but we can all agree that this list goes from very little water on something to a lot of water on something and we could be talking about toilet paper 

Is Water Wet Or Dry ?

here we could be talking about sand anything we're talking about going from dry to dripping wet to even further than that but what does this have to do with water being wet well let me show you what I mean so to start off I'm actually not going to start off talking about water but I'm gonna talk about something that we can get wet for example this toilet paper here and you'll see why I'm talking about this as we go along

 

so we're all used to talking about something being wet so that's why I want to start off with this toilet paper here we need an object that can be wet so first let's weigh our toilet paper here so this toilet paper weighs about 2 grams so my whole system here my toilet paper the air around it in the cup we're gonna call it all dry right now okay so let's step through this list here so for dry we have zero percent water next let's make this toilet paper damp so to make it damp I'm just gonna get my fingers wet and I just got it a little bit wet here 

Is Water Wet Or Dry ?

so I put on a few micrograms of water it still feels pretty dry but it feels a little bit damp it's kind of soaked it in so overall because it was only a few micrograms and the toilet paper weighed two grams so the dampness is still about zero percent water so now let's make it moist so to make it moist I'm gonna put on about two and a half milliliters of water okay so I think we'd all agree this is some moist toilette paper it's not quite wet yet there's still some dry spots but it's definitely moist so my moist toilet paper I put on 2.5 milliliters and the toilet paper itself weighed two grams and water is about one gram per milliliter so that means that two and a half grams out of four and a half grams is water in this system now so just to make something moist it is now about 55% water now let's get the toilet paper wet so to get the toilet paper wet I'm gonna put on another five grams 

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okay this is definitely wet toilet paper now okay so wet toilet paper is now 79 percent water then soaking wet and sopping wet are kind of the same thing I'm gonna add another two and a half milliliters I'm gonna go with soaking and sopping wet are such that you could probably wring it out you could probably wring it out and water will come out of it so that's soaking or sopping wet so these two are around eighty-three percent water and then here's 

Water is Wet Or Dry

where it gets interesting the next one is dripping wet okay so dripping wet is interesting because now we've stopped talking about the toilet paper as the system because when something is dripping wet it means the water is just coming off of it so it's dripping with water when something is dripping wet it's really wet so now let's make this dripping wet so I'm gonna add on another ten milliliters of water so that so this is literally dripping wet right now right so I can get the water that came off of it pick it up actually it's not quite dripping wet yet it's able to hold that much water so let's add another ten milliliters so 

now this is dripping wet you can see when I pick it up the water just drips off of it so this system here is dripping wet so dripping wet I now have a total of thirty milliliters of water in there so that leaves me with 93 percent water okay so then after dripping wet what if we want to get it even more wet well let me go ahead and put the rest of our water in here so now this is really dripping wet so there's not really a word for it so I'm just gonna say really dripping wet so this system is now really dripping wet so I'm gonna call this our 

DW really dripping wet so my really dripping wet system was 97% water okay now how about we make it really really dripping wet so we're just want to get this really really wet as wet as we can so how about I fill my whole cup up so this is really really dripping wet our RDW and that is that is now 99.5% water you might be able to see where 

I'm going with this now okay so why stop there let's make it even more wet so now our system is even more wet than the previous system and right now we're at ninety nine point nine nine three percent water so here's where it should all come together for you you can see that the more wet the system is that means the more water that is in the system 

so as we add water to the system it becomes more and more wet or to say a different way the less of something else you have in a system the more wet it is the less toilet paper that was in my cup compared to water the more wet my system was so if I were to keep doing this exercise I can next pour this into a swimming pool and you wouldn't even be able to really notice the toilet paper after that 

I mean it'd still be in there but overall your system is almost a hundred percent water now and then you could pour that swimming pool into the ocean so the point is the more water you have in a system the more wet your system is so based on my actual data here with words that we actually use we can put that in a graph format on the y-axis is our percent water and on the x-axis is our wetness level so the 

higher our fraction of water is in the system the more wet something is and what's the highest you can get on this graph here as a asymptotes is a hundred percent pure water and this right here ladies and gentlemen is my proof that water is wet you can easily see it in the plot here that the more pure water we have the more wet the system is so really this question about water being wet is not really a completely scientific question 

it actually has to do more with our usage of the word wet but my point is that in order to be consistent with our language of wet we have to say that water is for sure wet that's the only way to do it if water is not wet then that means that we shouldn't say something is more wet when we put more water on it but here's the caveat to this water is wet you'll notice that as this graph goes up it starts to asymptote and it never reaches a hundred percent pure water because our system was always something plus water is making 

it wet so tap water from your sink is not a hundred percent pure water it has some dissolved ions in it it has some particulates in it even deionized water is not a hundred percent pure water although it's very very very close but no matter how hard you try in any real system in the world you never actually have a hundred percent pure water so it actually doesn't matter on our plot that we never have a hundred percent pure water whenever 

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we talk about water or say the word water there's always something in it and that's why water is always wet but for all the non-believers that water is wet I will give you one little win here if it were ever possible to get a hundred percent pure water that would actually be outside of the wetness scale because this wetness scale that I've drawn here it asymptotes and it never actually reaches a hundred percent pure water and so because a hundred percent pure water is never reached on the wetness scale I would have to say if 

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it were possible to get a hundred percent pure water it would not be called wet but for any real life application water is wet hey thanks for watching another episode of the action lab I hope you enjoyed it I hope I didn't just make some bitter enemies with this one but if you enjoyed this video and you're not subscribed yet remember to hit the subscribe button hit the bell to be notified with my latest videos out and leave me any questions that you have about this video or any comments in the comment section and I'll try to get to them and I'll see you next time you