when you leave your glass with water in it for a few minutes, why does the outside of the glass get wet???????
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condensation--the difference in temperature from the outside and the water in the glass causes the water to condense and it gets wet.
570058
the outside of the cubes melt the fastest while the inside are still froze.  What happens is the inside refreezes the melting outside therefor sticking together.  This will even happen while in ther freezer (if it is a self-defrosting kind)
319184
if the cold thing is cold and crystaline, like pyrex or ice, the object cracks because of rapid localised expansion.\n\nIf it is really really cold, the water will crystalise.\n\nIf cold water hits something hot it forms little drops with a protectice steam jacket and they bounce around for ages, a cool experiment for home on a hot frying pan. (only uses drops of water though)
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1st -- tips of the hat to in-janier and lewis_brown for stopping by long enough to give the basic physics and most of all to Lewis for politely informing us that glass is not a liquid.  \n\nGlass is a liquid?  Pull-eeze!  How in the world do you come up with that one, people?  \n\nGlass "flows" -- ???  \n\nGlass flows in liquid state -- only.\n\nGlass is solid until melted.  Then and only then it's liquid.\n\nGlass melts at 2600-2900 °F (1425-1600 °C) depending on its composition.\n\nWhere on Earth do you think glass is liquid or flows at bench temperature?\n\nAnway, I originally stopped by just to ask the asker if he or she could see through black glass (or any other opaque glass)?
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Probably some of the soap vaporized and coated the outside of the water bottle. The water shouldn't be used regardless of what happened. A sealed plastic bottle would not allow soap in, and even if this is not the reason and there is some form of contamination, the soap not being responsible will not decontaminate it.
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Place a drop of water on horizontal glass plate gently.\n\nContrary to our expectation that the contact area should be a perfect circle, the area will have an irregular area.\n\nIf we clean the glass thoroughly and repeat the experiment we can see that the area is some what circular.\n\nThis shows that only if the glass plate is perfectly clean and has a perfectly plane, t surface (with out any surface waviness) the area of contact will be circular.\n\nThe surface tension between the glass and water makes the surface of water to be at an angle called angle of contact.\n\nIf the glass contains impurities and if the surface is not perfectly plane  then the angle of contact will not be uniform and constant and hence the area of contact is of some irregular area.\n\nIn a vertical window pane, the gravity pulls the water drop and and at each point of contact, the surface tension prevents the pull at different angle due to the variation of surface tension at each point due to impurities and surface waviness.\n\nThe water moves along the resultant force which is not uniform. \n\nThis is the reason that the water is not moving straight down.\n\nIf the water goes almost straight down we can conclude that the glass is almost clean.
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It's because of evaporation.  Whenever something evaporates, it takes energy away from what it's touching, and the temperature goes down.
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It works by removing the water vapour (like steam) from the air. Water vapour condenses back to a solid for when it meets a cold surface. The water then appears as if from knowhere (as in condensation on a glass or can containing a cold drink) This action takes place when the dew point of the vapourised liquid is reached
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it gets hot, just its not a very good conductor of heat, therefore it cools off basically once the heats removed from it, so when you take it out, its not hot.
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bungiebabe - yu.gota.goh have the best answer for you so far. While it wasn't milk, I have spilled two entire cups of coffee all over my laptop before. (No, not at the same time ... Sometimes, I don't learn lessons so well! :-)\n\nPop off all keys from the keyboard and let it THOROUGHLY dry - it may require up to a week. After a day or so, place a fan on it to help speed up any evaporation. Try turning it on 4 or 5 days later, and it *should* work. If it does, you may want to take it to a specialist to have it cleaned.\n\nGood luck with it!
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You dont drink enough liquids,so it is semi dry and it sticks to your hiney.
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Excellent question.  \n\nThis is due to a process called osmosis.  Osmosis is the net movement of water molecules in and out of a partially permeable membrane (a kind of barrier that only allows certain molecules to pass through), from a region of their higher concentration to a region of their lower concentration.\n\nIts pretty self-explanatory here.  Since the concentration of water is higher inside than outside of the plant, water moves out of the plant, resulting in the plant dehydrating and dying.
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Water is not wet, it makes things wet!
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What condensates on your wiendshield is moisturem means water drops stick to the glass.\n\nGo to a car shop and ask them. In Europe they market a product which is a cotton sheet which is saturated with Polymers and silicones. When applied they form a layer on the glass .Because of the surfcae which forms the drops can not stick to the glass and it stays transparent. They also may have a spray.\n\nI have never looked for this in the US but expect they have it to.
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rain will not wet your glasses any more, it feels kind of good.  You can't swim under water with your eyes open very much, they may wash out, but not always.  some real fine dust may ruin them, but usually they keep the crap out of your eyes.  If it is hot and dry, the wind may make them wrinkle up and you either have to wet them or you can't see and it hurts..  They float on the fluid on your eyes and don't touch them at all.  Sometimes they get dirty and blurry and you have to clean them. Steam from cooking will not bother them.
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Because it is water base and water will evaporates.
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This is called the Mpemba effect.  It occurs for other reasons than the temperature of the water,  Mostly because of the different characteristics of water at different temperatures.  This Site has a lot of information about it.