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Usually soil is more dense than water.

Density is the weight of a substance per unit volume. The weight of one milliliter (1 cubic centimeter) of water is 1 gram, so it's density is 1 gram/cc. Common bulk densities for soil range from about 1.2 g/cc to 1.8 g/cc.

Bulk density is the density of the soil, including both the soil particle and the pore space between the particles.

Particle density for mineral soils (the density of a single particle of a grain of sand, for example) is generally about 2.6 g/cc

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