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Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:34:18 UTC No. 16275357
/sci/. I have a very important question to ask. Can the sun be considered a liquid, and therefore, is it wet?
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:47:39 UTC No. 16275374
>>16275357
>Can the sun be considered a liquid
No. It is plasma.
>and therefore, is it wet?
"wet" implies damp, and thus implies water. We use the term "saturated" for non-water liquids inside something porous. The sun isn't made of H2O, so even if it was a liquid, it would not be wet.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:49:47 UTC No. 16275379
>>16275357
>Can the sun be considered a liquid, and therefore, is it wet?
Not really. It is a plasma, meaning an ionized gas where the blown off electrons are too excited to rejoin the nearby positive ions.
While we can model quite a few plasma behaviors as being similar to liquids, they are not true liquids because the atoms are not always tightly packed, and they respond to electric and magnetic fields strongly.
The plasma "fluid" you see on the sun would not wet a surface as water might, for example. There is no surface tension to mitigate such attractive forces.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 01:02:54 UTC No. 16275393
>>16275374
>>16275379
Curse you science! You've ruined me again!
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 01:07:46 UTC No. 16275396
>>16275357
It's a 'dry' fluid.
>flows but it's very spicy
>can't touch any solid without turning itself into gas