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Walk up to a dry counter. Your observation is that the counter is dry.

Pour water onto the counter. Your observation is that the counter is wet.

Take a rag and clean up the water. Your observation is that the counter is dry, again.

 

Pour water onto the dry counter. The counter is wet, again.

Pour water onto the water already there. Is the water wet? No.

Water is either warm or cold, not wet or dry.

 

Everything has an opposite, an opposing force, plus or minus, true or false.

The opposite of wet is dry and visa versa.

Therefore; water is neither wet nor dry because there is no opposite.

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Dry ice (CO2 ice) xD

Very cleaver. But, as you so clearly pointed out. dry ice is not water, it is frozen carbon dioxide. As you know, CO2 is not a liquid, it is a gas. 

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A water dimer is a cluster of two water molecules where one water molecule donates a hydrogen bond to the other. It's very important in a theoretical sense because it is the prototype of a hydrogen bond.Jun 11, 2015

Ingenious Richard Saykally Tells Us Why Water Is Wet - Nautilus

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^ I actually googled is water wet and something came up :unsure:

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A water dimer is a cluster of two water molecules where one water molecule donates a hydrogen bond to the other. It's very important in a theoretical sense because it is the prototype of a hydrogen bond.Jun 11, 2015

Ingenious Richard Saykally Tells Us Why Water Is Wet - Nautilus

nautil.us › issue › ingenious-richard-sayk...

 

^ I actually googled is water wet and something came up :unsure:

I googled it, too, but liked the idea of water NOT being wet for the sake of argument. 

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