329. What is water

How do you describe the phenomenon of wet-ness? Compared to solid and gas, liquid is a fearsome phase of matter.

Adhesion, cohesion. How disturbingly do these properties meld into assumed territory of real-life fact? Every time you draw your hand through, those intermolecular bonds are weak enough to leave shapeless masses of their brethren, abandoned or trapped behind, attached to the surface they touch. Buoyancy and liquid pressure are expected if you are the one submerged under their territory, but what lends to the careless invasion of their abandoned soldiers onto a hand merely passing through?

Like dissolves like.