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3 years ago

Why does a piece of cork float in water?

Chemistry

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bazaltina [42]3 years ago

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It has a density lower than 1

Sunny_sXe [5.5K]3 years ago

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Cork floats in water because the cork weighs less than the amount of water that it would have to push up to sink. This basically says that since cork is less dense than water, it floats.

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Answer: The pH of an aqueous solution of .25M acetic acid is 2.7

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So dissociation constant will be:

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Putting in the values we get:

$1.8\times 10^{-5}=\frac{(0.25\times \alpha)^2}{(0.25-0.25\times \alpha)}$

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The density of the rock is 3.314g/mL

CALCULATE DENSITY:

According to this question, a rock weighs 23.2g. After dropping the rock into a graduated cylinder containing 55mL of water, the level changes to 62mL.

This means that the volume of the rock can be calculated as follows:

Volume of rock = 62mL - 55mL

Volume of rock = 7mL

Density can be calculated using the formula as follows:

Density = mass ÷ volume

Density = 23.2 ÷ 7

Density = 3.314g/mL

Therefore, the density of the rock is 3.314g/mL

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