👉 In physics, "water-like" is a concept used to describe a substance that has some form of liquid or gaseous nature. It can be defined as having certain properties such as temperature and pressure, similar to a liquid but without its characteristic high boiling point or viscosity. For example, water is often described as a "water-like" substance because it has an almost perfect balance between density (which is very close to 1), specific heat capacity (with a value of about 4.
