Why can't water melt you?

Question

In the Wizard of Oz movie, Dorothy throws a pail of water at the wicked witch, who screams "I'm melting!" Explain two things wrong with this statement.

Answer 1

You don't melt because you are not a wicked witch )

Answer 2

Its just because your body doesnt work that way.

Answer 3

First, there is a big difference between the words "melt"

and "dissolve", and many persons do not know the difference.

The second answer above is not correct; melting is merely

a physical change, not a chemical reaction.

Melt means to change from the solid to liquid state, and

dissolve is the formation of a solution of a solid substance

in a liquid substance.  Even boiling water would not be hot

enough to melt the storybook witch, although it might burn

her - which for a witch is questionable..  And the water

Dorothy threw on her was not boiling hot.

Secondly,  the substances persons (and perhaps witches)

are made of are not readily soluble in water; otherwise we

could not bathe and swim - we would dissolve.

There are your two fallacies.

Answer 4

Melt means changing from a solid to a liquid. Pure substances  which are solid can melt becauseit change to liquid qt the same temperature( or melting point).

1.People are made of a mixture of substances which all have different melting points.

2. Are present as different states of matter.

Answer 5

water cant melt you because it evaporates before reaching a high enough temperateure to melt you.

Answer 6

Nothing's wrong. She's not human, she's a witch. Her skin was green, she could fly on a broom, and she had an army of obedient flying monkeys. Definitely not human, and apparently witches in the world of Oz can be melted by water, just as witches can be bubbles and a scarecrow can dance around and do a bunch of stuff when he's simply made of straw. Its a fantasy world thus fantasic and magical things happens

Answer 7

i dont know. but youcan catch on fire. if your hot enough, *POOF* you go up in flames. and the wizard of oz is just a movie.

Answer 8

What a ridiculous question. Oz is a fantasy land in a movie. Not only that, but it's a dream within the movie.

Scientifically speaking, you'd die way before melting. The properties of some things are just different. Why don't burgers melt instead of cooking? Why does rain fall down instead of up? There's explanations for these, but if you're looking for a serious answer, post again but don't include anything about the Wizard of Oz.

Answer 9

melting is a chemical reaction. our bodies are based on water. if we were based with something that reacted with water in such a way that u melt, then u could

if water was brought to the temperature that we could melt, th water would boil

Answer 10

Well humans are mostly water so to melt:    

(intransitive verb)

"1: to become altered from a solid to a liquid state usually by heat

2 a: dissolve, disintegrate <the sugar melted in the coffee> b: to disappear as if by dissolving <her anger melted at his kind words>

3obsolete : to become subdued or crushed (as by sorrow)

4: to become mild, tender, or gentle

5: to lose outline or distinctness : blend

transitive verb

1: to reduce from a solid to a liquid state usually by heat

2: to cause to disappear or disperse

3: to make tender or gentle : soften"

would be hard to do to it self.

Answer 11

The water was holy water which when comes in contact with evil,  melts the evil away...of course it was only a dream and dreams are not often reality...

Answer 12

It's a money in some fantasy land. It doesn't have to make sense...