CuriousGeorge asked:
Sand and rocks are not acceptable options. The assignment is to fill a mason jar with something heavy. The heaviest jar wins lunch with the teacher.
Sand and rocks are not acceptable options. The assignment is to fill a mason jar with something heavy. The heaviest jar wins lunch with the teacher.
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put lead weights in em . Like the ones you use for fishing.
You could pound them with a hammer to fit more inside .
Let me know if you’ve won the contest .
Look for items with a higher atomic weight, like gold or mercury.
What do you have access to?
Perhaps something like lead, or similar?
The heaviest metal, and the heaviest element, is OSMIUM. A 12-inch cube of osmium would weigh about 1,345 pounds, or as much as 10 adults, each weighing 134 pounds. and thats just about 1 Mason jar full If you have to sue redily avail items you can get a qt mason jar full of liquid mercury as its weight:
As it turns out, a fluid ounce of water weighs just about one dry ounce. (It weighs slightly more, actually.) But that’s just water. An fluid ounce of liquid mercury is about 13.6 times denser than water, so one fluid ounce weighs 13.6 dry ounces! So a qt mason jar of mercury is aprox 435.2 ounces in weight * or 27.266 lbs thats kinda heavy too…
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