Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Density and weight of materials
(first column is specific gravity or g/cm^3, second is pounds per cubic foot)

Sp. Gr. Wt./cf Material
0.16 10 Snow, fresh
0.26 16 Alfalfa, ground
0.38 24 Cedar, red
0.40 25 Manure
0.42 26 Aspen wood
0.45 28 Redwood, California, dry
0.48 30 Chestnut wood, dry
0.48 30 Snow, compacted

0.67 42 Ash wood, white
0.71 44 Maple, dry
0.71 44 Apple wood
0.71 44 Birch wood
0.72 45 Pine, yellow southern
0.75 47 Pecan wood
0.79 49 Alcohol
0.85 53 Mahogany, Spanish, dry
0.95 59 Oak, live, dry
0.96 60 Ebony wood

1.20 75 Paper, standard
1.35 84 Coal, bituminous solid
1.44 90 Caliche
1.44 90 Earth, moist, excavated
1.52 95 Gravel, loose, dry
1.55 97 Quartz, lump
1.60 100 Sand, dry
1.60 100 Clay, wet lump
1.60 100 Earth, wet, excavated
1.60 100 Stone, crushed
1.68 105 Gravel, dry ¼” – 2”
1.73 108 Sand w gravel, dry
1.73 108 Earth, soft mud
1.91 120 Basalt, broken
1.92 120 Sand, wet
1.92 120 Brick, common red

2.16 135 Cement, mortar
2.40 150 Mortar, wet
2.40 150 Porcelain
2.40 150 Concrete, gravel
2.56 160 Marble, solid
2.61 163 Limestone, solid
2.64 165 Quartz, solid
2.64 165 Aluminum, solid
2.69 168 Slate, solid
2.69 168 Granite, solid

7.77 485 Iron, wrought
7.85 490 Steel, cast
8.16 509 Bronze
8.56 534 Brass, cast

10.46 653 Silver
11.35 708 Lead, cast
13.534 Mercury
18.7 Uranium
19.25 Tungsten

19.29 1204 Gold, pure

1 Comments:

At 2:03 AM, September 15, 2005, Blogger Carol Anne said...

You give the weight per cubic foot, but I don't see a unit for the weight. Is it pounds?

Of course, to be both more accurate and more universal, you'd use mass rather than weight, and you'd use SI units -- kilograms and cubic meters.

Oh, and that snow -- is it the heavy kind that falls in the Midwest, or the powdery stuff that covers the Rockies every winter?

 

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