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Another note (which you mentioning air made me think of), if water "has no surface" then how does it have "surface tension?" Another point for "water touches water."
Water touching water surely mixes, no?
Mixing elements would entail the elements dissolving or at least distributing within the mix, making boundaries between them unclear. The mix can however have a clear edge.
Does milk wet cocoa, or do they mix? The hot chocolate of course has a surface, but if you add rum to it does it really adhere to it?
Yes.
It dissolves when wet, sure, but on a molecular level is the cocoa bonding with the water to become some state other than "wet" or "dry," or is the dissolved cocoa still "wet?"
Matter of fact, we have words to describe the quantity of "wetness." There's many synonyms of course, soaked, dessicated, etc, but the base levels are: dry, damp, and wet. If "water is not wet," then what is it? Do you propose water to be "dry?"