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This is a type of weighing scale where you put weights on one pan and the substance you are weighing on the other. When the two pans swing freely with the needle in the middle you have the correct weight.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 14y agoThere are 2 pans with the base to hold them. The meter determines if the objects or gram weights balance.
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∙ 9y agoThe parts of a double pan balance are the two weighing pans, the pointer rider or sliding mass, and rider arm. This scale can be used to determine the mass of an object.
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∙ 13y agoThe object whose mass is to be determinded is placed on the left pan. Standard masses are added to the right pan.
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∙ 9y agoPut the item being weighed in one pan. Put measured weight in the second pan until both pans are balanced. The weight in the second pan, is how much the item in first pan weighs.
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What is a pan balance made out of?
A pan balance is made out of two pans, two chains depending on how long youwant them, a piece of metal depending on how long you want it to be and twopieces of wood to make the stand for the scale.
What are the difference between single pan balance and double pan balance?
The weight is measured by means of one or more bars (levers) with sliding weights that are marked with the exact weight that balances the contents in the pan. So the principle is a simple lever with weights on on one side of the fulcrum that balance the weight of the unknown object in the pan.
Why are hot objects never placed on a balance pan?
Because it Will burn through the balance pan
Is it acceptable to determine the mass of a chemical sample by placing it directly on the pan of the balance?
Yes it is, as long as the balance is accurate.
What sensitive instrument weights a paper clip at 0.49 grams?
A top pan balance
How do you word a sentence using double pan balance?
Assayers often used a double pan balance to weigh gold samples.
What are the differences between triple beam balance and the double pan balance?
Triple beam balance determines mass. A double pan balance determines the weight of two objects.
Is a triple beam balance the same thing as a double pan balance?
no
What is difference between single pan and double pan balance?
A double-pan balance can also be used to determine how much of a substance makes up a specified weight. For example, if you wanted to measure 10 grams of sand, you could load 1 pan with a 10-gram weight, and then place sand in the other pan until it balances.
What is an double pan balance?
Something that measures weight.
Mass can be measured using a double pan balance?
i think so
How Balance bromine and ethanol alcohol?
Take a double pan balance. place bromine in the left pan. Add alcohol to the right pan until the two pans of the balance are at the same height. Voila...you have balanced bromine and alcohol
A device used to compare mass of an object to a known mass?
A double pan balance... A balance scale... Remember how the dusty 49'r cashed in his gold at the Well's Fargo in 1850?
What is the device comparing the mass of an object to a known mass?
The device used for comparing the mass of an object to a known mass is a double pan balance, or a balance scale. This is a type of weighing scale where you put weights on one pan and the substance you are weighing on the other.
What is the definition of a pan balance?
A scale used to weigh things which are put in a pan.
Is a triple bean balance or spring scale or double pan balance better to weigh rocks?
i am pretty sure its a triple beam balance
What is a pan balance made out of?
A pan balance is made out of two pans, two chains depending on how long youwant them, a piece of metal depending on how long you want it to be and twopieces of wood to make the stand for the scale.
