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Does cork sink or float in mercury?
Oil is denser than cork, so the cork would float.
If you place a solid in a liquid will ether sink?
That depends on the relative densities of the solid and the liquid. If the solid is denser than the liquid, the solid will sink. If the liquid is denser, the solid will float.
Why mercury is used in hydrometer?
A hydrometer consists of a cylindrical stem and a bulb weighted with mercury or lead shot to make it float upright. Mercury has a higher density, thus a lower volume for the same weight than lead. It is a toxic liquid metal, but also more dangerous and difficult to clear up the mess when a glass hydrometer is broken
What liquid metal is most commonly used in thermometer?
The liquid metal in many thermometer is mercury (Hg).
What element is used in a barometer?
Barometers can use any liquid. A dense liquid that makes for a short column at room temperature, is mercury.
Can iron float in any liquid?
Solid iron will float in liquid mercury. In most liquids it will sink.
Can nickel float on liquid Mercury?
Strictly be density, nickel should float on mercury.
Does lead float or sink in liquid mercury?
Lead floats in mercury.
Would a quarter float in water?
It will sink in water, but it will float in mercury. Depends on what the liquid is.
Would water or liquid mercury float?
Water floats when it is turned into ice, because in this form it is less dense (it crystallizes, and the structure expands). It also can float in combinations of liquids, for example, it is less dense than liquid mercury, but more dense than oil, so it would 'float' on the mercury. Liquid mercury is very dense, and doesn't usually float on things.
Does a lump of iron float?
Solid iron will float in liquid Mercury. In most liquids it will sink.
Can balsa wood float on liquid mercury?
no, because mercury can be able to burn things, so when wood goes into liquid mercury, it would most likely melt or "crash and burn."answ2. The above is not correct. Balsa wood would float easily on the surface of mercury. Mercury is a toxic and dangerous material, but it does not of itself provoke combustion.
Why can't a pebble float?
It can float, in a given quantity of the (liquid at room temperature metal) mercury. This is because mercury is denser than any pebble, stone, likely to be found on earth surface. Floating is the condition or state of bouyancy in a liquid. So a stone is to mercury as a cork is to water.
Why does low density float?
For an obect to be able to float in a liquid it has to weigh less (have less mass) than the weight (mass) of the liquid displaced by the object, so low density objects weigh little with respect to their size (volume) and the volume of the amount of liquid displaced. English corrected by GregorS This applies between any viscous media so a gas such as Helium will float above a heavier gas such as Nitrogen and Hydrogen will float above Helium. likewise a low density liquid oil will float above a heavier density liquid such as water which in turn will float above a denser liquid such as mercury. B.T.W mercury is so dense that metals such as iron, copper and many other "heavy" materials will float on on the mercury.
Would a block of aluminum float or sink in a pool of mercury at room temperature with a density of 13.6?
A block of aluminum will float on a pool of mercury at nearly any temperature (except at extremely elevated temperatures (above 350 °C) where mercury is no longer liquid) The density of aluminum is 2.70 grams per cm3, whereas the density of mercury is 13.53 grams per cm3. Therefore mercury is more than 5 time more dense than aluminum! Anything that is less dense than a liquid will float in that liquid. Not only would aluminum float but it float with only 1/5 of it's volume submerged.
Would a paraffin float in fresh water?
Yes.
Which liquid has a higher density between water and paraffin?
Water
