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Help please! Which has the larger volume 12g of water or 12g of aluminum?

A)Without using a calculator decide which one has the larger volumeExplain your conclusion.B)Will a piece of aluminum float in a flask?It probably simple but I am new to this please help!Thanks beforehand.:)

Answer:

water is larger than aluminum(for instance, a block of aluminum will sink in water)a cool fact about why ice floats in liquid water: when ice forms, the molecules realign into a crystalline structureThis structure takes up more space than when the molecules just rolled over each other in liquid formThis makes the ice less dense than water (just barely) another cool fact about water: water is not actually H20 bonded togetherin liquid water, it is just a mess of H atoms and 02 molecules, they aren't actually attached to eachotherThis makes water slightly positively polarIn the very early Earth, lakes of salt may have been surrounded by lakes of watersalt is negatively charged, and water is actually slightly positiveThis created a current of electrons between them, gigantic batteries many miles acrossThis motion of energy could have, by chance, created the first amino acids and thus DNA.

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