Poll: Is Ice wet?

[Superior Mind]

Why is a topic that is covered in "Baby's First Science Book" a subject of debate in a forum with previously thought to be intelligent people?

Luckily most of you have it right. Ice is not liquid therefore not wet. Any sensation of wetness is brought on by a layer of water that may be covering the ice - clarification, it is not the ice which is wet it is the water which is wet. As to the other question, dry ice is a solid form of Carbon Dioxide. It is also not wet and you don't touch it to test to see whether it is because it will burn you.

As a side note putting dry ice in a coke bottle with a little water in the bottom, doing up the cap and throwing it is a lot of fun.

 

[Moriarty]

Ice is not wet. You can often find ice with a thin layer of melted water covering it, but in that case the water is what is wet, not the ice.

As said in the other thread, wet refers to having a liquid state, and ice is a solid.

But if I were to have cookie that is dry, but then I dipped it in milk, thus coating it in a layer of liquid, is said cookie not wet?

would you call all cookies in the world wet, just because you can pour liquid on some of them?

No, only after they were liquid covered of course.

then why would we call ice wet? sure you can make it wet, but that is also true with everything else

 

[MGlBlaze]

It depends what you mean by 'dry'.

No, ice is very dry, the water that's melted from said ice makes idiots think that the ice is 'wet'.

Pretty much this is what I was thinking of.

If by 'dry' you mean 'contains no water', though, then yes, ice is wet. I guess this would be the meaning of a 'dry' substance in chemistry, since there you can technically have 'dry' liquids as long as they don't involve water itself.

 

[savandicus]

The kind of ice that everyone uses commonly, is always wet as it has a very thin layer of slightly melted ice around the edge making it wet because its covered in water.

Dry ice is by its name not wet as its DRY ice.

However if you froze normal ice to some ridiculous negative temperature then stuck it in a vaccum to avoid water in the air condensing on it then it wouldnt be wet.

In conclusion is ice wet? Answer: Most of the time.

 

[ManaAdvent]

Ice is more likely to be wet when it is melting.

 

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

What if the wetness you're touching condensation becoming water or the ice melting into water in your hands?

 

[bam13302]

If it is wet, the wet is water not ice, the ice is not, the water on the ice is... i think... IDK, sounds good to me

 

[Megas Rules]

ICE is NOT wet, when it melts it is.

 

[imaloony]

Now, is DRY ice wet?

Wrap your mind around that one.

 

[jjetr]

Now, is DRY ice wet?

Wrap your mind around that one.

Nah, dry ice is CO2
It's a gas
So no
It's like saying 'is oxygen wet'

 

[jmd102993]

ice is dry, however its low melting point that causes it to turn into water at room temperatures, is what makes it feel "wet" while it itself isnt wet, the water from ti is

 

[scw55]

It's dry intill it starts to melt slightly.

 

[Rappletek]

to answer this,

1) can a solid be defined by liquid terms, i.e. wet? no
2) is water in its liquid form ice? no
3) is ice a solid, a state that is defined by the bonding of molecules allowing for no free movement? yes
4) is the liquid on the surface of the ice actually water the liquid form and not ice the solid? yes
5) is ice wet? no

 

[ezeroast]

ice is dry, the only reason it might feel wet is because part of the ice has melted into wet water which is no longer ice.

 

[maninahat]

Yes. In the same way a flannel is wet. Though not when it is on its own.

 

[maninahat]

It depends what you mean by 'dry'.

No, ice is very dry, the water that's melted from said ice makes idiots think that the ice is 'wet'.

Pretty much this is what I was thinking of.

If by 'dry' you mean 'contains no water', though, then yes, ice is wet. I guess this would be the meaning of a 'dry' substance in chemistry, since there you can technically have 'dry' liquids as long as they don't involve water itself.

Doesn't that mean a wet cloth is also dry? After all, there is no actual water in the composition of the fabric's molecules, even if there is water in and around the cloth itself.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Yes. In the same way a flannel is wet. Though not when it is on its own.

Touché, very good reasoning.

 

[brodie21]

better question what is dry ice?

dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide. it is called dry ice because when it warms up it goes straight from a solid to a gas.


yes, ice is wet. all ice has an extremely thin layer of water (to explain it very simply) on the outside in varying degrees of thickness. the coldest ice has a layer an atom thick. as the ice warms up, this layer gets thicker. this is why hockey players refer to colder ice as 'fast ice' and warm ice as 'slow ice' because the thicker the membrane the slower you can skate across it, the more friction it presents.

 

[Phlakes]

Wet

Wet may refer to:
The condition of being liquid or being covered in liquid

So it depends on if it's covered in liquid or not. But by itself, no.

 

[Notthatbright]

Depends on how cold it is. If its really cold ice, its not wet. If its only sorta cold ice, it will be.