Why do things stick to your skin when you're wet?
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Surface Tension = An attractive force between water molecules called hydrogen bonding.
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When lubricating skin, you are putting lotion of some kind on the skin to prevent chafing or to soften the skin.
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it is wet because it wants to jump down your throat and attack you from the inside as well as the outside. \n\nIt is wet because we get thirsty and will drink it - but also because nasties can be dissolved in it. we will be fooled into drinking it and we get sick.\n\nDamn it for beng wet
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Your skin is made up of two layers. The outer layer is called the epidermis and the lower level is the dermis. The outer layer (epidermis) produces an oily substance called sebum. You can see this substance when you touch a window or mirror and your "oily" fingerprint is left there. One job sebum does is it keeps water out of your skin—a job that it does very well. However, after long periods of time in a swimming pool, shower, or bathtub, much of the sebum is washed off and your outer layer of skin starts to absorb water. As it absorbs water it swells, but since the epidermis is "tied" down to your dermis in certain spots, it expands more where it is not "tied" down and this causes your skin to wrinkle.
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because when its in the bottle it stays moist. glue holds together as it drys...
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This is called evaporative cooling.\nThe water is cooler than your skin and absorbs this excess heat until it reaches evaporation temperature. As the water evaporates it releases this heat into the air which must be cooler than your body for this process to work. This is why sweating helps cool the body. The hotter and more humid the air temperature, the slower the evaporative cooling effect takes place.
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Because of the nature of light energy, wave or particle. When clothes are wet, water fills the spaces between the fibers and forms a thin film on the surface. This diffuses light striking the clothes and also absorbs some of the energy, so less light is reflected. THt energy goes into heating the water, which is why your clothes will dry in the sunlight.
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To save heat for the vital organs of the body, blood vessels on the skin contract, leaving you with bigger bumps.
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Even though you can't see it, your skin is covered with its own special oil called sebum (say: see-bum). Sebum is found on the outermost layer of skin. Sebum moistens, or lubricates (say: loo-bruh-kaytes), and protects your skin. It also makes your skin a bit waterproof. That's why water runs off your skin when you wash your hands, instead of soaking it in like a sponge would. \n\nBut staying in water for a long time washes away the sebum. Then, the water can penetrate the outer layer of your skin. This causes your skin to become waterlogged. So how does this lead to wrinkles?  No one is really sure. \n\nSome people think it's because the skin expands to allow extra water inside. The expanded skin ends up looking really wrinkly. Other people think that it's because the skin is tied down to the tissue underneath in certain places. So when the skin is full of water, it swells up (gets puffy), but only in places where it is not tied down, which makes it look wrinkly.\n\nWhat should you do if this happens to you? Nothing. It goes away quickly on its own. You'll have more sebum on your skin in no time.
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To make it slippery!\n\nIt's alcohol based and water soluble so it does not remain on your skin after the shower.
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The skin of your fingers absorb water/ fluid and swell also.
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Yes you get wetter while you run in the rain - they did an episode on myth busters around it.\n\nMakes sense because you are out there in less time but still moving through the same distance, plus you are splashing water from the ground onto your clothes. And you tend to lean forwards when you run increasing hte amount of surface for water to land on.
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You have contact dermatitis. You are getting an allergic reaction to something in the water. In fact this is an improper immune response.
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Skin is in several layers. The top layers absorb water faster, so they expand and cause the "wrinkled' effect.
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this does in fact relate to surface tension.  But if we want to look at this a little further...water is held together by intermolecular forces with one of the strongest being hydrogen bonding.  This is the reason there are water drops.  When a paper clip is set on clean water the hydrogen bonding and other intermolecular forces are strong enough to keep the paperclip afloat.  When soap is added to the water it begins to weaken the intermolecular forces of the water molecule.  When the paper clip is placed on top it will sink to the bottom.  These same ideas work for the little water bugs "walking on water".
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well the gloves should stay sticky on there own for awhile. but when they start gettin patchy, i usually spit on them a lot. but water works also. spit is more handy tho.
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Because it causes the moisture on your hand to flash freeze and stick to it.  Just don't do it with your tongue!