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How many iron ball bearings can be made with .?

How many iron ball bearings (spheres) with a diameter of 3.00mm can be made from 10.0kg of an iron ore that is 47.0% iron (assume all of the iron in the ore can be recovered from the refining process)?

Answer:

Probably just tubes of whatever material.
Ball bearings aren't made of iron. Iron is too soft
density of iron: 7.87 gm/cm^3 volume of 1 bearing: (4/3) pi r^3 (4/3) pi (0.15)^3 0.094 cm^3 Weight per bearing (7.87)(0.094) 0.74 gm Extractable iron (10 kg)(0.47) 4.7 kg (4700 gm) # of bearings 4700/0.74 6351 (Note: Has to be a number rounded down to the nearest integer.)
chromoly tubing 4130 is the type of tubing used on bikes .

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