So like really trying to force water around it the water would have no where to go what would happen?
- stealth_cookies ( @stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ) 64•2 months ago
I desperately want to know what you were imagining might happen when you asked this question.
- viking ( @viking@infosec.pub ) 31•2 months ago
A hovering blobb of liquid, equidistant from each wall, most likely.
- Tony N ( @tonyn@lemmy.ml ) 45•2 months ago
That’s basically what you get, but the distance from each wall is about an atom thick.
- Jolteon ( @Jolteon@lemmy.zip ) 3•2 months ago
Hey, that atom thick distance allows the water to not stick to the coating.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 1•2 months ago
Or maybe explosive splashing.
- Admetus ( @Admetus@sopuli.xyz ) 8•2 months ago
The long awaited invention of anti-gravity.
The bucket would be dry.
- bizarroland ( @bizarroland@fedia.io ) 55•2 months ago
Basically, the water would be held inside the bucket in the shape of the bucket without getting the bucket wet, because the hydrophobic coating would prevent the water from touching the bucket, however the water would still touch the hydrophobic coating, it just will not stick to the hydrophobic coating.
- Fermion ( @Fermion@feddit.nl ) 44•2 months ago
Well the bucket would get very scared.
- pop ( @pop@lemmy.ml ) 5•2 months ago
hydrophobia is no laughing matter. 😂
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 4•2 months ago
well then, why are you laughing?!
- howrar ( @howrar@lemmy.ca ) 35•2 months ago
You ever use a paper cup? That’s basically what they are.
- Tiefling IRL ( @tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 15•2 months ago
A black hole would open up, don’t do it
- walden ( @walden@sub.wetshaving.social ) 12•2 months ago
Like, on the inside of the bucket? It’ll still hold water like normal.
- stembolts ( @stembolts@programming.dev ) 5•2 months ago
However if you put it on the outside of the bucket nothing changes at all and this comment is a pointless thief of your time and attention. Sorry.
- Empricorn ( @Empricorn@feddit.nl ) English11•2 months ago
Do… you think a coating repels water a foot away like some sort of anti-water magnet…?
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 10•2 months ago
The water sits in it, but only where gravity holds it. There would be a very pronounced meniscus at the top. That is, if you looked closely the water would dip down really far at the edges before it meets the bucket.
It’s not that hydrophobic substances can’t touch water, it’s that the force of surface tension will oppose it. Unless you’re an ant, surface tension isn’t that impressive vs. most other forces.
Edit: If you have an ant-sized bucket, the water may sit on top of it as a droplet rather than going in.
- sgibson5150 ( @sgibson5150@slrpnk.net ) 5•2 months ago
Don’t listen to the jeering goons, OP. Keep asking questions. 🤜🤛
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 4•2 months ago
The water disappears
- davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English4•2 months ago
Pretty sure you’d get one big bead of water. Something much more interesting are superfluids.
- black0ut ( @black0ut@pawb.social ) 4•2 months ago
Basically the same thing as when you fill a non-stick pan with water. Hydrophobic coatings only repel water in a way so that it doesn’t stick to the surface. That’s why they use hydrophobic coatings on windshields, so the droplets of water slide easily and quickly.
Granted, the effect is more noticeable with hydrophobic coating than with non-stick coating, but if you were expecting the water to visibly float away from the walls, that won’t happen with either. Reality is sometimes disappointing, huh?
- devoid ( @davoid@lemm.ee ) English2•2 months ago
makes me want to spray some in a urinal
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 2•2 months ago
I’m sorry that’s simply not allowed
- ShepherdPie ( @ShepherdPie@midwest.social ) 1•2 months ago
What would happen if you sprayed your body with hydrophobic spray and then went down a slip-n-slide?