Asked in School SubjectsChemistryScience Experiments
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Chemistry
Science Experiments
How do you work out the volume of displaced water from an anchor that lies on the bottom of the ocean?
Answer

Wiki User
January 31, 2009 6:00PM
volume after anchor was in water minus volume of water without anchor in it = the volume of the anchor
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