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What objects sink or floats?
An object will float if it is less dense than the water (or other liquid). If it is denser than the water, it sinks.
Does lead float or sink in liquid mercury?
Lead will sink in liquid mercury because lead is denser than mercury. Mercury is a heavy liquid metal, so most metals will sink when placed in it.
How do water's relative densities an a solid a liquid deffer from that most other substances?
Solid water, ice, is less dense than liquid water and floats on top. The solid state of other substances is more dense than the liquid state and will sink in the liquid.
Why do some objects float or sink in water?
It depends on the density of an object. If the density is higher than the density of the liquid, the it sink. If it's less, it floats.
Why do some things float and why do other things sink?
Things float when they are less dense than the liquid they are placed in, allowing them to displace an amount of liquid equal to their weight. Things sink when they are denser than the liquid, causing them to displace less liquid than their weight and therefore sink.
Does an angsana plant floats or sink?
Floats
Why do some object float when placed in a container filled with a liquid while other sink?
Objects float in a liquid if they are less dense than the liquid, displacing a weight of liquid equal to their weight. Objects sink if they are denser than the liquid, unable to displace enough liquid to support their weight. Archimedes' principle governs whether an object floats or sinks in a liquid.
Does a pen sink or float?
a pen floats
What floats and does not float?
A pencil floats, a human no float, a feather floats, paper floats, ice floats, keys do not float, rocks do not float, coins do not, flip flops float. Second answer: I think you meant to ask, 'What floats and then some time later starts to sink. If that is what you meant, the answer is: There are absorbent substances which float when dry, then after absorbing water while they are floating, they increase in density and then sink.
How does an object's density determine whether it floats or sinks?
An object will float if it is less dense than the liquid it is placed in. An object will sink if it is more dense than the liquid it is placed in.
How does an object's density determines whether it floats or sinks?
An object will float if it is less dense than the liquid it is placed in. An object will sink if it is more dense than the liquid it is placed in.
Do all frozen liquids float on their liquid as ice floats on water?
No. Exactly the opposite. Water is the only known substance whose solid form floats in its liquid form. Which, incidentally, is a lucky accident, since life on earth would be impossible if ice sank in water.
