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Letter 38044
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Dear Desperate John,
The mentor of finishing.com ...Ted Mooney ... was dead right. You are
damned lazy.
If you hit GOOGLE and wrote down 'weights of metals' you'd soon find
some answers much faster than going to this site.
This has to do with specific gravity. Lesson # 1. A cubic foot of
water weighs 62.4 lbs # 2 The specific gravity of water is 1. Ergo,
if the sg of a substance is, say, 2 ... then 2 x 62.4 will give you
the weight of a cubic foot of that substance. NOW B...... WELL
MEMORIZE THAT. OK !
I would not have been so polite as Ted ...
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Freeman Newton |
John, you clearly have access to the Internet, so you can easily find the answer to your problem. However, nickel and silver can weigh as much as you want them to - it all depends on how much you have of them! To compare their "weights" you need to know their densities. Now, as a bit of extra homework, tell us the relationship between weight (or mass) and density.....Then we will know that you haven't just used us a way of getting your homework done on the cheap.
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Trevor Crichton |
I never could figure out which weighed more, a lb of silver or a lb of nickel....
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Sheldon Taylor |
The weights of objects are directly proportional to how much it would hurt to get hit in the head by a pound of them, Sheldon -- which explains the well known fact that a pound of lead is much heavier than a pound of feathers. So there isn't an awful lot of difference in the weight of a pound of silver and a pound of nickel; in fact, allowing for roundoff error, John H could probably go so far as to claim they weighed the same without risk of demerits :-)
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Ted Mooney finishing.com Brick, New Jersey |
You know, the real reason we can't answer the original question is that "Desperate John" didn't specify what planet (or other location) he's on! Weight depends upon local gravity (as opposed to mass).
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James Totter,
CEF |
silver-107.87
nickel-58.69

Jason Brown
- Athens, PA, USA
Thanks for the atomic weights, Jason. But is there a workable relationship between density and atomic weight?
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Ted Mooney finishing.com Brick, New Jersey |
Well, it turned into an interesting thread to read, but a pointless one because the original poster gave no indication whether he was thinking of atomic weight or density. An ambiguous question attracts ambiguous answers.
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Bill Reynolds |

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