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Air has weight because it is made up of molecules of matter and all matter has weight and mass.
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∙ 12y agoAir has weight because it has mass. The only things that don't have mass are photons and neutrinos. The atmosphere weighs an astonishing 5.7 quadrillion tons.
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∙ 9y agoAir gets its weight from the molecules that it is made up from. The molecules in air do not weight very much and are invisible.
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∙ 14y agoTo be matter it must have mass and volume. Air has mass. It is pulled to the Earth by gravity.
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∙ 12y agoDensity or gravity
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How does adding air increase weight?
Air has some mass, and therefore weight. Under normal conditions, air has a mass of a bit more than one kilogram per cubic meter. For comparison, this is a bit over 1/1000 of the mass of water.
What is weightless odorless and if put in a barrel makes it lighter?
Helium is a gas that is weightless, odourless, and would make a barrel lighter.
How will you describe a vacuum?
An area that is airless and weightless.
Why do you not feel weightless if flying in a large airplane at a high altitute but if you were in an orbiting spacecraft you would constantly feel weightless?
That's because an orbiting spacecraft is constantly falling, but ... let's hope ... the aircraft you're riding in is not.
Is the moon weightless?
The moon is weightless, because the centrifical force of its rotation is counter acting on gravity. If both forces are exactly the same, they cancel out each other. The moon would have weight if it was close enough to fall, but otherwise no.
What position is a person weightless?
When someone is freefalling in thee air thus they become weightless
Is anything shot or thrown into the air weightless?
no everything has weight.
What does the word weightless min?
It means something that has no measurable weight, such as air.
What adjectives describe air?
Weightless, fresh, aromatic, pleasant, crisp.
Are people weightless in the air?
No. Things are only weightless in the absence of a gravitational field or in constant acceleration (Inertial weight or mass) (Ask any skydiver.)
Why cant you lift your self into the air?
gravity you idiot. Become weightless, then talk.
Do the objects weightless in air than in vaccum?
Yes. Air will provide some upwards force, according to the volume of air displaced.
What is the effect of weightless people on earth?
It affects them by doin stuff because everything they do is in the air
How heavy is a blown up balloon?
A blown up balloon is weightless because the whole thing is just air and air has no weight
Weightless invisible theres nothing in it the strongest man can hold it for only a minute?
air. his breath.
Are objects in freefall weightless?
no. If they were weightless they would not fall.
Is cotton wool weightless?
No. It is light -- not heavy, but it is not weightless.
