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Why does wood float in water but lead sinks?
It has to do with density and water displacement. When you put something in water the object displaces an amount of water equal to the volume of the object in the water. Wood is not extremely dense, so the volume of water that the wood disp... Read More »
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Why does wood float but stone sink?
First, the stone sinks because of the weight, the wood would probably be much lighter than the stone. Second, the density. The stone is much more dense than the wood Read More »
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Why does wood float and rocks sink?
Answer: That is because wood has a lower density than water ( mass per volume). Rock has a higher density than water and sinks. Answer: This isn't an entirely true statement. There is a rock that floats, which is pumice, and there is wood ... Read More »
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All objects float if their average density is less than the substance that they are immersed in. So if something is hollow, or has a substance lighter than the liquid in it, it would float on the liquid. (Some things are denser than their s...
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Big ship not metal all the way through. If you think of all of ship, it is mostly air with metal frame and skin of metal around it, so its average weight (density of entire thing times volume) much less than solid metal. If average weight l...
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Metal boats and ships float because they are designed to displace water in a particular way, utilizing the surface area of the materials used to build the boat or ship, the interaction of the surface tension of the water and the materials, ...
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The density of the wood is lower than the density of the water, so the water displaces the wood and is held to the 'floor' by gravity. Lead is more dense, so it can displace the water and sink.
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Boats float because their design exploits the pri...
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mass of the water displaced by a coin is less then the mass of the coin and mass of the water displaced by a tree log is more then the mass of the log. In other words density of the material the coin is made of is more than the density of w...
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the wood has a density lower than water, the density of the gold is greater than water.
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