WATER

What is Water?
What is water made of?
What is water made of?
 Everything is made of atoms. An atom is the smallest
particle of an element, like oxygen or hydrogen.

 A water molecule has three atoms: two hydrogen (H)

atoms and one oxygen (O) atom. A single drop of water
contains billions of water molecules.
Wet·ness
/’wetnƏs/

noun
the state or condition of being covered or
saturated with water or another liquid;
dampness.
Is water really wet?

Our brain receives the information from our sensory

receptors and processes it. A combination of
temperature, pressure and the way water moves, tells
our brain that water is wet.
Wet or Dry?
Whether an object is wet or dry depends on a balance
between cohesive and adhesive forces.
Cohesive Vs. Adhesive
COHESIVE FORCE
 Is the attraction force between molecules of the same
substance
 An intermolecular attraction
 Includes Van Der Waal forces and hydrogen bonding
 The formation of water droplets on the surface tension
of a liquid is due to cohesion
ADHESIVE FORCE
 Is the attraction force between different molecules
 An intramolecular attraction
 Includes electrostatic attractions
 The spreading of a liquid on a solid surface is due to
adhesion
Jacqueline Castles

“WATER ISN’T WET. Wetness is a description of our

experience of water. We learn by experience that a
sensation of wetness is associated with water.”
During the water cycle, water forms rain which makes
everything on the ground wet
Rain itself is not wet
 Wetting is the ability of a liquid
to maintain contact with a solid
surface, resulting from
intermolecular interactions when
the two are brought together.
Being a liquid, water
is not itself wet, but
can make other solid
materials wet.
The reason it feels as it feels when
water touches the skin is actually a
complex electro-chemical reaction,
which works at amazing speeds. The
sensory in outs are a combination of:
• Your body’s pH at that moment
• The water’s pH
• Your body’s temperature at that moment
• The water’s temperature
• The atmospheric pressure
• Molecular polarity
EXAMPLES
Situation 1: There is a concrete floor. You pour water on
the concrete floor which is assumed to be initially dry.
The water is now covering the concrete surface which is
now considered by everyone to be wet. The water is left
to evaporate and the concrete floor has returned to its
original dry state.
 Situation 2: There is a puddle of water. The puddle of
water now contains more water; however, it isn’t
considered wet as it wasn’t previously dry and cannot
be dried without evaporating the water which
therefore would differ from its original state. This
therefore shows that water cannot be ‘wet’, as an
adjective or as a verb.
THE END