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Due to the way surface tension works, many fewer than 1 in 1000 water molecules are wet.

There’s a kids science experiment where you coat your hand in the right powder, dip it in water, and it comes out dry. I can’t find a link to it though.



Errr, what's the definition of "wet" that you are using?

Isn't the common definition of "wet" that it has water on it?

So, by that definition... 100% of water molecules would be "wet".


The standard definition of wetting doesn't mention water. (For one thing, other liquids can make stuff wet.)

The first few paragraphs on wikipedia are a pretty good summary, and the article also includes a picture of a water bead failing to wet a surface:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetting


From that:

    Wetting is the ability of a liquid to maintain contact with a solid surface ...
There's no solid surface for our purposes here, so that doesn't really seem to apply all that well?




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