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This is expressed as the weight of a mineral compared with the weight of an equal volume of water?
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This is the specific gravity of the mineral. It's a comparison of how much mass a given volume of it has compared to the mass of an equal volume of water.
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How do you know thickness x length x width equals weight?
It does not. It equals volume. The weight will vary depending on the substance occupying that volume.
What are two factors that depend buoyancy?
volume and weight
How do you calculate the denstiy of pyrite?
Compare its weight to the weight of an equal volume of water. The weight of the specimen divided by the weight of the water equals the density of the specimen.
Weight calculation from height and diameter?
Height and diameter will give you the volume, if you know the density you can then calculate weight from that.
How does halving a sample affect the weight of the sample?
If the sample is homogeneous, then half of its volume has half of its mass and half of its weight.
How do you calculate mineral volume?
Mineral density should know. Weight / density = volume
The density of a pure mineral?
The density of a pure mineral is measured using various apparatus and techniques which are covered in most mineralogy textbooks.
What compares weight of mineral with weight of an equal volume of water?
Specific gravity
What is the difference of percent of mass and percent of volume?
Percent of an objects mass is expressed in terms of its weight. Percent of an objects volume is expressed in terms of its size.
What is a mineral's density?
The density of minerals is a measure of weight vs volume of the mineral. See related links for more details.
Is a liquids volume usually expressed in grams or milligrams?
Grams & milligrams measure weight, not volume. For measuring volume, use cubic centimeters or liters.
The procedure for determining the density of earth materials?
It's called the specific gravity of a material, and it is the weight of a specific volume of material, compared to an equal volume of water, expressed as a number. Galena, for instance, has a specific gravity of 7.4, indicating that it is 7.4 times heavier than water.
How do you get the specific gravity of a mineral?
Fill a beaker with water, and weigh it. Weigh a sample of the mineral. That's the mass of the mineral. Put the sample in the beaker and weigh that. The weight of the water-filled beaker plus the weight of the mineral sample will be greater than the weight of the beaker with mineral sample and water. The difference is the weight of the displaced water, in grams. The volume of the mineral sample, in cubic centimeters is equal to the weight of the displaced water, in grams. Calculate the specific gravity of the mineral by dividing the weight of the mineral sample by the volume of the mineral sample. Example: your beaker weighs 40 grams. Filled with water, it's 1040 grams. The sample of mineral weighs 160 grams. The beaker with the sample of mineral and water weighs 1179.7 grams. The mineral, and the beaker with water would have a combined weight of 1200 grams, but the beaker with mineral and water weighs 20.3 grams less than that, so the mineral sample is displacing 20.3 cubic centimeters of water. Given a mass of 160 grams and a volume of 2.03 CC, the specific gravity would be found by dividing 160 by 20.3. It's 7.85. (Which happens to be the specific gravity of some iron.)
1 milliliter of liquid is what amount of milligrams?
Milligram is a weight and cannot be compared to a liquid volume.
How to Find Volume when given mass and specific gravity of a mineral mass 2851.2g specific gravity 4.2 what is volume?
weight = mass * gravitational constant. Newtons (weight) = kg * m / sec^2 for instance.
What is the method of finding the volume of an object where its weight in air is compared to its wight suspended in water?
The Buoancy Method.
How many cc's are in a pound?
CC is unit of volume and lb is unit of weight. These two cannot be compared.
