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[[File:Alchemy water symbol.svg|thumb|100px|[[Alchemy|Alchemical symbol]] for water]]

'''Water''' ({{Old English|''wæter''}}; {{OHG|''wazzar''}} "the moist, flowing", {{Proto-Germanic|''*watar''}}; {{Indo-European|''*wódr̥'' or ''*wédōr''}}; derived from {{Proto-Indo-European|''*wed-''}} "water", wet"; {{Greek|ὕδωρ}} ''hydor'' and derived from it ''hydr(o)-''; {{HeS|מַיִם}} ''majim'', also {{He|יָם}} ''jam'' "sea"), the '''water element''', is one of the classical [[four elements]] which, according to the occult view, build up the [[physical world]]. In the spiritual-scientific sense, water is first described as everything that is in a liquid or amorphous state. In this sense, amorphous solids such as glass are also attributed to the water element, even though they are often harder than some crystalline solids. [[Ice]], as frozen crystalline water, does not belong to the water element, but to the [[earth element]]. 

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