Does water have skin?

Question

Ok this kid at my school said that water has skin(not real skin but like a layer blockign the water). That is why you hit the water so hard; but if you throw a quarter in and break the skin(layer) you wont get hurt(splat. belly flops etc). But h**l i doubt its true so I was wondering if it is.

TY for all the reply`s.

Answer 1

It is called surface tension and not skin. It is the same reason why water striders can mate on water

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_ten...

Answer 2

What it has is surface tension.

Surface tension is a property of the surface of a liquid that causes it to behave as an elastic sheet. It allows insects, such as the water strider (pond skater, UK), to walk on water. It allows small objects, even metal ones such as needles, razor blades, or foil fragments, to float on the surface of water, and it is the cause of capillary action.

The physical and chemical behavior of liquids cannot be understood without taking surface tension into account. It governs the shape that small masses of liquid can assume and the degree of contact a liquid can make with another substance.

Applying Newtonian physics to the forces that arise due to surface tension accurately predicts many liquid behaviors that are so commonplace that most people take them for granted. Applying thermodynamics to those same forces further predicts other more subtle liquid behaviors.

Answer 3

yes the water have skin not an original skin but some vanderwaal forces acting on the surface of it. hence the water has some tansion on the surface it is kown as surface tansion.

Answer 4

surface tension

Answer 5

no,it's a liquid. Although some tings like soup and stuff has skin water is pure,complex so it does not

Answer 6

If you look at the cause of surface tension, you should consider there is a skin.

The layer of water with air is different with those with water.

You can consider there is a skin.