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But Legos float


They make boat sets with little weighted keel pieces that will give them enough weight to sit nicely in the water; this might have some form of ballast inside it somewhere...


Pretty sure they don't if you expel all trapped air.

Its this stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylonitrile_butadiene_styren... which has a density > 1 x 10^3 kg/m^3 ie 1 g per cc. Water is slightly less than 1.

Lego sinks.


https://youtu.be/3FxfXVuHRjM

Lego does indeed sink


Bet they float in salt water.


I don't bath in salt water so never tested that.

According to WP: "The density of surface seawater ranges from about 1020 to 1029 kg/m3"

According to WP: ABS is 1.060–1.080 g/cm3

Lego sinks in seawater.

If you saturate a beaker of water with salt then lets go here for some results because I can't be arsed to go back to school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saline_water

Roughly 1.193 g/cm3 which is more dense than ABS so Lego will float in salt (NaCl) saturated water.




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