4 Responses to “Would a cube of solid silver sink or float in liquid silver?”

1. Ed on January 20th, 2012 4:10 am

   It would sink. The only thing that floats in itself is liquid water to Ice.

   Solid silver is more dense than liquid silver, therefore it sinks.
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   Chemistry.

2. Starrysky on January 20th, 2012 4:59 am

   A Yahoo answer from 4 years ago says liquid silver is less dense, cube sinks.
   http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080419175021AAX2URH
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   Google. Try it!

3. Mike on January 20th, 2012 5:43 am

   Sinks purely because of density but if you had a thin big sheet of silver equal to the density of the cube then it would float but water and ice are not the only combinations that float when in solid matter I think titanium if the liquid is boiling
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4. Maybe it's just me on January 20th, 2012 6:03 am

   The only way I know of to keep silver a liquid is to heat it to boiling point. Would an ice cube float in boiling water or sink? While we are talking about it (it would float, as I believe the solid silver in the boiling silver) the ice would melt in the boiling water, and the solid silver would melt in the boiling silver. The silver would be just boiling silver.
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