• Question: why cant you walk on water Liam

    Asked by anon-190698 to Liam on 16 Nov 2018.
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      Liam Taylor answered on 16 Nov 2018:


      We’re too big and heavy! Individual molecules of water are super sticky and they create a force between them that we call ‘surface tension’. If you put really light things into water, then that’s not enough force to break the stickiness of the water molecules. But, us being big and heavy, when we touch water, the force of us jumping into water is greater than the stickiness of the water molecules, so the ‘surface tension’ is broken and we get wet!

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