Oil weights

[JimPghPA]

Originally Posted By: CR94
Originally Posted By: 02SE
...A pound of lead weighs exactly the same as a pound of aluminum...
True, but the pound of aluminum will be slightly easier to lift because it has more bouyancy in air due to its larger volume.


That slight difference is already taken into account when both were weighed in air.

 

[JimPghPA]

The answer to the original question is because Carbon has an atomic weight of 12, and Oxygen has an atomic weight of 16.

 

[CR94]

Originally Posted By: JimPghPA
Originally Posted By: CR94
True, but the pound of aluminum will be slightly easier to lift because it has more bouyancy in air due to its larger volume.


That slight difference is already taken into account when both were weighed in air.
With that assumption, you'd be dealing with a larger actual mass of aluminum, which wouldn't make a fair comparison.


See what happens when people pose ridiculous questions?

 

[TiredTrucker]

Comes from the confusing viscosity with thickness or density. Viscosity is simply resistance to flow. When you advance to the next life, look up Isaac Newton and you can probably get him to elaborate on that further.

 

[JimPghPA]

Big phenomenons have little phenomenons that exist within their facts to change them. And little phenomenons have smaller phenomenons and so on infinitum.