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Density Calculator

Density from mass and volume, with the sink-or-float check against water.

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The formula and the anchor value

ρ = m / V

Water is the anchor: 1,000 kg/m³, which is 1 g/cm³ and 1 kg per liter. Anything with relative density above 1 sinks. Aluminium is 2.7, steel 7.9, gold 19.3, air about 0.0012.

Archimedes in one line

Density is how you identify a material without damaging it: weigh it, dunk it, divide. The displaced water gives the volume, and a crown that reads 15 instead of 19.3 has been cut with silver. Same trick, twenty-three centuries old.