What gets wetter as it drys?
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For a Different Answer:\n\nThe AIR.\n\nThe AIR gets wetter as it dries, because the water evaporates, making the air more humid.  Hence... wetter.\n\nIf someone hangs a WET TOWEL on a clothes line to "AIR dry", the AIR gets wetter as it dries the towel.\n\nOR. Its a nice windy day, and you just washed your car.  The water on your car evaporates as it "AIR dries"; making the air wetter (more humid).
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water, water and more water
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water will get deeper
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wash with cold water and line dry
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Tap water evaporates as it sits around.  The additives become more concentrated as the water evaporates but they don't dissipate.  Eventually they "precipitate" as salts and end up as solids in the container.
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water, rubbing alcohol or if nothing else acid :P(dont really do acid)
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This might be useful:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporation
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Materials, dissolved (or semi-dissolved?) in water, are moved up and down the plant through the xylem and phloem, such as the previous posts say.  An additional factor to think about is that materials and water also move about because of differences in pressure within the vessels of the plant. At the leaf surface, heat and wind are drying the water that is present.  As this water "dries out" of the plant through the stoma, it creates a vacuum within the vessel it was in.  This, in turn, pulls water up through the plant to replace itself (physics-search for pressure, STP). This whole process is called Transpiration.  Adhesion, thus capillary action, would not be sufficient enough a force to distribute water to the highest part of the plant.
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the definition of wet is covered or soaked with a liquid.  the definiton of liquid is the state of matter in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow, little or no tendency to disperse, and relatively high incompressibility.  the definiton of water is a clear, colorless, odorless, and tasteless liquid. So by definiton water is a liquid that exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow that covers or soaks.  So yes water is wet.
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The evaporation may make it  worse.\nTry holding a cold damp washcloth on it, provided you do not have a problem with laundry detergent or fabric softener.
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It evaporates.  Remember your body temperature is very warm (98.6 deg).  Your skin is an organ that is designed to protect your body by keeping things out.  You may get a little absorption on the outer most layer, but even it will eventually evaporate.
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Antibotics to dry it up.
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evaporation is when the liquid form of water eevaporates or becomes water vapor. evaporation is one part of the water cycle and is a very large one. evaporation puts water into the air as a gas called water vapor. this then condenses into tiny droplets, forming clouds. \n\nhope this helps
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it's the coarseness of the material.  the pores are large....like the pores on your face.  It will hold water.
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The process is called capillary action.  The surface atoms of the liquid will interact with the surface atoms in a hollow space (such as a tube, or the small spaces between the fibers of a paper towel).  this will cause the liquid to pull itself up the tube, or along the fibers, as it keeps interacting with the next surface molecule.
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I thing you are referring to surface tension pulling the water up the tube. The water can't be pulled past the end of the tube since there is no tube after that to pull on. In other words the water doesn't know the tube is too short until it gets to the end.
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no let it dry and keep it coverd