It might seem obvious but water being wet is actually debatable.
Strictly speaking water is a setting agent- the closest example I can think of that makes broad sense would be saying “gravity is heavy.” Gravity itself would not generally be considered to have weight- it’s interaction with mass Can impart what we call weight.
Many might argue that water west itself- but this doesn’t follow how water behaves. Water doesn’t coat itself, water molecules bond. Mixing water into water doesn’t wet the water, the water stays the same in that sense, there is just more formed together. This is different than adding something like sugar and powdered drink mix and stirring where the powder becomes suspended in a solution- it is floating between molecules of water basically. It isn’t bonded to the water and is thusly “wet.”
There are examples of where one might add another liquid to water and water hls become wet from the other liquid in theory, but water isn’t self wetting. Water can’t saturate itself. There is no limit to the amount of water you can add to water. If you keep adding sugar to water, eventually the water can hold no more sugar and sugar will start to float freely in the water or fall to the bottom of the vessel the water is in. If you continue to add water to water, you will just have more water because it is already and will remain “100% water” so long as you continue to add “pure water.” Any matter which is not water might eventually saturate the water and be free, but you won’t have water discreetly floating or settling that isn’t part of the larger mass of water.
In this sense science is pretty straightforward that water itself is not wet. It can be made wet in theory, and it can make other things wet, but water doesn’t really get wet from itself, it produces wetness when interacting with certain other matter.
Of course by many dictionary definitions water could be said to be wet. This depends on the dictionary and in some cases how one chooses to interpret the meaning.
One can also argue that in nuance, while a moot point, that on a technicality wager could be considered at the saturation point with itself. There are a few other arguments to be made on the front that water is wet. The current general consensus in science is that water is not wet.
This may seem confusing if you try to relate to other concepts. “So fire isn’t hot then?” Generally fire is hot- but fire isn’t really a singular type of matter- there isn’t a “fire molecule.” At the molecular level fire is generally fuels, gasses, multiple types of matter that are involved in a reaction. Heat can cause fire, so all those molecules have atoms that are excited and this state of excitement is one of the primary means that what we know as heat is radiated. So fire is a reaction not a cohesive element or molecule. Fire is inherently tied to the changing of states of matter within the fire.
Strictly speaking water is a setting agent- the closest example I can think of that makes broad sense would be saying “gravity is heavy.” Gravity itself would not generally be considered to have weight- it’s interaction with mass Can impart what we call weight.
Many might argue that water west itself- but this doesn’t follow how water behaves. Water doesn’t coat itself, water molecules bond. Mixing water into water doesn’t wet the water, the water stays the same in that sense, there is just more formed together. This is different than adding something like sugar and powdered drink mix and stirring where the powder becomes suspended in a solution- it is floating between molecules of water basically. It isn’t bonded to the water and is thusly “wet.”
Of course by many dictionary definitions water could be said to be wet. This depends on the dictionary and in some cases how one chooses to interpret the meaning.
One can also argue that in nuance, while a moot point, that on a technicality wager could be considered at the saturation point with itself. There are a few other arguments to be made on the front that water is wet. The current general consensus in science is that water is not wet.