Obviously I know ice is just solid water but would ice be heavier than the same volume of water if you account for the expansion of water as it freezes?
I’m only curious because I know that as water freezes it traps air molecules inside its crystalline structure so I was wondering if it trapped enough to cause a distinguishable difference in weight between the two states.
I blame the fact I just woke up for not thinking about the difference in density 😅 I was just filling up my water bottle with ice cubes and thought about how ice expands and my brain went “bigger must mean heavier”
So here’s a question for you? What weighs more, a kilogramme of steel or a kilogramme of feathers?
The feathers. You have to carry the weight of what you did to those birds.
“You done clucked up, boy!” - Chicken St.Peter
And I need a container to carry that many feathers.
I can carry the kg of steel in one hand.
It’s an old riddle that only works with imperial units. In traditional British (i.e. completely insane) fashion, the imperial weights and measures had two pounds in it, and you had to choose the right pound for the right thing you were weighing. The troy pound was used to measure metals and only has 12 ounces, whereas the pound used to measure feathers had 16, so a pound of feathers was 4 ounces heavier than a pound of steel or gold or whatever.
Wow. You really dont get it.
A pound is the same for both. The oz measure is what was different. Thus an oz of metal is heavier than an oz of feathres. However a pound of both weights the same.
No. Steel is heavier than feathers.
Which would you prefer dropped on your head?
Clearly the steel weighs more.