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If you have ever handled bacon, you should know that fat is quite oily. Oil is, as most people know, lighter than water. Since fat is basically solidified oil, a fat person, or one with a high body fat to muscle ratio, would be more buoyant than one without.
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Why is a person easily carried in water?
Because the air in our lungs and body makes us buoyant (float)
The scientific word for floats easily?
its buoyant
Does the weight of a person affect their buoyancy?
Generally, it is not the weight so much as the amount of fat to lean muscle and bone. The more fat a person has the more buoyant they are. You could a have 300-pound weightlifter who is solid muscle (very dense) and a 300-pound elderly man who has little lean muscle and lots of fat. The elderly man would be more buoyant even though their weight is the same.
Who learn swimming easily and quickly a fat person or a slim person why?
a slim one
Why can't some people float?
This is easy. Muscle does not float. If the person has body fat the person will float, the more fat the better the person floats. The less fat, the less a person floats.
Why you are able to float easily using the terms density and buoyant force?
When the density of a object is less than that of the surrounding fluid, the buoyant force is great enough to move it up.
How do you use buoy and boy in a sentences?
The buoyant economy did not allow new comers in the market The buoyant behavior of a person determines her characteristics.
Would a person float more easily in the middle of the Atlantic or the Arctic Ocean?
The Arctic Ocean's salinity is the lowest on average of the five major oceans. Objects would be more buoyant in the Atlantic.
Why do women float better than men?
Women tend to have a higher fat: - muscle ration than men do, and fat is also more buoyant than muscle.
Do fat people float?
No actually your size has nothing to do with it.
Is wine heavier than water?
for the volume that he occupies he is heavier than water. That is why he sinks.
Can fat people do moonwalk?
Yes because im fat and i can do it easily
