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What is a liquid that is not wet?

Question #66347. Asked by mamaluvkudzu.

helenasykes
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helenasykes
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liquid nitrogen

May 30 2006, 10:31 AM
Brainyblonde
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Mercury

May 30 2006, 12:04 PM
MyAlias
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MyAlias

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I imagine all liquids are "wet" as all solids are hard and all gasses are voporous. Let us not speak of plasmas.

May 30 2006, 1:02 PM
SOTHC
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SOTHC
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Glass is a liquid that has lost its ability to flow

May 30 2006, 5:23 PM
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elburcher
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liquid, one of the three commonly recognized states in which matter occurs, i.e., that state, as distinguished from solid and gas, in which a substance has a definite volume but no definite shape.

wet,
in a liquid form or state: wet paint.
characterized by the presence or use of water or other liquid.


May 30 2006, 8:26 PM
peasypod
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A product called "Sapphire" used in fire-fighting is a liquid "that is not wet".

link http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=94

May 30 2006, 8:36 PM
MyAlias
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MyAlias

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Rock is a liguid that has lost its ability to flow (lava) just like glass. It is now known as a solid.

May 31 2006, 7:27 AM
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Baloo55th
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Depends on surface tension. Water gets wetter when a drop of detergent is added. (Put a drop of distilled water on a leaf, and then put a drop from a source with detergent added on a similar leaf. The detergented water will spread far more, while the distilled will remain as a little drop trying to avoid contact as much as it can - OK, being anthropomorphic there.) Wetness is a measure of how much attaches itself to other things dipped into it. Mercury doesn't appreciably, water does, but not nearly as much as syrup does.

May 31 2006, 2:14 PM
KOOLY
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KOOLY

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lava

May 31 2006, 3:22 PM
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