Water is no longer wet

Overheal

http://gizmodo.com/5624936/there-is-such-thing-as-dry-water

Don't ask me what voodoo they used but scientists have created dry water. Well, they originally invented it back in 1968 but they've recently re-discovered it and this time, found an actual use for it. First, dry water, how does that even make sense? Ben Carter, Ph.D, the researcher, explains:

[It's] known as "dry water" because it consists of 95 percent water and yet is a dry powder. Each powder particle contains a water droplet surrounded by modified silica, the stuff that makes up ordinary beach sand. The silica coating prevents the water droplets from combining and turning back into a liquid. The result is a fine powder that can slurp up gases, which chemically combine with the water molecules to form what chemists term a hydrate.

So what can we use it for? Apparently, those fine grains of water do a magnificent job in absorbing and storing carbon dioxide, which if you didn't know contributes to global warming.
There's also other potential uses for dry water such as jumpstarting chemical reactions and providing a safer way to transport and store harmful industrial materials. Which is all fine by me, I'm just stunned that I can say dry water and not have my brain explode. Hmm, I wonder if I can swim in it. URL="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100825174102.htm"]Science Daily[/URL
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This just in: water is wet.

DOC09UNAM

Maybe jesus walked across dry water

daz801

awesomeness

Owwmykneecap

I believe dry water is in fact called ice.
Gaseous water being called steam or water vapour.



I actually am a chemist and this is how I'm spending my life.....

ldxo15wus6fpgm

Use it to soak up CO2, and chuck it onto the seabed. Simple.

DOC09UNAM

Are you serious?

Ice has to be frozen, this is simply water with a modified silica coating.

ldxo15wus6fpgm

Owwmykneecap wrote: »

I believe dry water is in fact called ice.
Gaseous water being called steam or water vapour.

I actually am a chemist and this is how I'm spending my life.....

I believe you are confusing the word "dry" with the word "solid".

Owwmykneecap

Being facetious is all.

It's all bollocks innit?

DOC09UNAM

Owwmykneecap wrote: »

Being facetious is all.

It's all bollocks innit?

don't think fAcEtIOUs suits this one, but it truly is a lovely word, doubt anyone doesn't know why tbh.

Great! use it to remove all the CO2 and we'll have stunted plants and -20C every night!

It surprising how little people know that water isn't actually considered wet at all?

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DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Maybe jesus walked across dry water

Or a frozen lake?

starbelgrade

Carolyn Loud Nitroglycerin wrote: »

I believe you are confusing the word "dry" with the word "solid".

That's why he's a chemist & not a physicist!

Brendog

If waters no longer wet...


does that mean all pussy is now dry?:(

WindSock

According to New Scientist, we don't feel water on our skin anyway, it's just pressure & temperature.

kfallon

The shower in the morning is gonna be interesting from now on!!!

phill106

To get it wet again, do you just add water?

kfallon

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Maybe jesus walked across dry water

Maybe Jesus didn't exist....like Santa, The Tooth Fairy, The Easter Bunny & Batman!

Chorcai

kfallon wrote: »

Maybe Jesus didn't exist....like Santa, The Tooth Fairy, The Easter Bunny & Batman!

can'o worms

syklops

known as "dry water" because it consists of 95 percent water and yet is a dry powder. Each powder particle contains a water droplet surrounded by modified silica, the stuff that makes up ordinary beach sand

I was thinking, "Where did they get funding for this...?"

And then I read

"Global warming"

Ah, I see.

Earthhorse

Silica on the outside, refreshing on the inside; new Dry Water!

Grady Scary Mandible wrote: »

Or a frozen lake?

Surely, he'd skate across a frozen lake? Blades in the sandals I'd say.

WindSock wrote: »

According to New Scientist, we don't feel water on our skin anyway, it's just pressure & temperature.

Societal pressure?

Oh, yeah sure, I feel the water. You mean you don't? Freak! :eek:

phill106

Wonder if you snorted it, would you drown?

WindSock

Earthhorse wrote: »

Societal pressure?

Oh, yeah sure, I feel the water. You mean you don't? Freak! :eek:

Yeah. Well I was going to say we don't feel wetness but of course it would have left the door open for the obvious. Can't be too easy for them...

So when is this going on sale in the Head shops.

Mouvvit!

Rhyme

phill106 wrote: »

Wonder if you snorted it, would you drown?

If The Abyss is anything to go by, no.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

don't think fAcEtIOUs suits this one, but it truly is a lovely word, doubt anyone doesn't know why tbh.

You're never alone! Abstemious!!