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Answered 2010-08-12 12:13:15
You place it in water to see the volume of water it displaces.
Fill a large, graduated measuring cylinder to about halfway with water (say to 50mL)
Put the irregular solid in, and measure the volume it reads (solid + water). (say it reads 80mL)
So the volume of the irregular solid will be:
volume(solid+water) - volume(water).
For example, the volume of the water was 50mL, and when the solid was added, the volume increased to 80mL.
The volume of the solid would be 80mL - 50mL.
So it would be 30mL.
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