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Is water wet or does it feel wet?

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When something is wet by definition it has water molecules clinging to it, in terms of cohesion water molecules cling to eachother making water by definition wet

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Water feels wet. This is because the sensation of wetness is largely due to the cooling caused by evaporation, and water has a rather high latent heat of vaporisation, which is the amount of heat it removes from its surroundings in order to convert liquid water into water vapour.

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