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by rzzzt 942 days ago
If you put some liquid on a solid surface and it doesn't form a bead, the tiny attracting forces between the two materials overcame the innate desire of the liquid to keep its own bits and pieces together, and so the surface is now wet: https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/Montana_State_University...

In that sense even liquid metal will wet the heatsink and/or the CPU's heat spreader.