Comment on Is ice heavier than water?
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 4 days agoI 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”
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
So here’s a question for you? What weighs more, a kilogramme of steel or a kilogramme of feathers?
corvi@piefed.social 4 days ago
The feathers. You have to carry the weight of what you did to those birds.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
“You done clucked up, boy!” - Chicken St.Peter
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
And I need a container to carry that many feathers.
I can carry the kg of steel in one hand.
Visstix@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s an old riddle that only works with imperial units. In traditional British 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 lead or gold or whatever.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Wow. You really dont get it.
bluGill@fedia.io 4 days ago
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.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Which would you prefer dropped on your head?
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Clearly the steel weighs more.