Which weighs more: sand or water?

Question

Which weighs more: sand or water?

Answer 1

Sand does.



Take a glass, fill it with water. Take another, fill it with sand, you'll see the sand is heavier.



(even better for what you are doing - fill with sand, then top it off with water - trust me)

Answer 2

Wet sand weighs the most!

Answer 3

From experience a 5 gallon bucket filled with yellow Columbia sand is much heavier than 5 gallons of water. Wet or dry the sand is heavier. Columbia sand is used in masonry.

Answer 4

The question is which is more dense.

1kg of feathers = 1kg of coal

Sand filled is heavier than water filled. This is a known fact.

Answer 5

Take a bag of sand and drop it in the water. Does it sink?

Et voila! Your answer is given.

Answer 6

it will be water. go to tire change shops or garages and scrounge up for nuffing the used lead weights(used for balancing wheels) then stuff it into bottle....it will be heavier than all.

Answer 7

1 gal Sand, dry = 13 lbs.

1 gal Water = 9 lbs

Answer 8

It depends. Sand is denser as it sinks in water. HOWEVER, a bag of water will not have any spaces in between as there are spaces in between sand. And each sand particle is different in size and density as well. So you'd really have to weigh it. scoop a cup of that sand and use it as the general sample for the overall weight of the sand. then measure the weight for the cup of water.

Answer 9

I dont know the answer. But the dropping a bag of sand in water is not a proof as sand has a lot of air in it.



Id say Sand is heavier IF THE AIR IN IT IS SUCKED OUT.



But no need to guess. Find the chemical combination of sand, compare its weight in the periodic table with water.

Answer 10

Depends on the volume. Also the kind of sand. A pound of one thing weighs the same as a pound of something else.



A gallon of water weighs about 8 pounds or about

1000 kg/cu m



A gallon of sand weighs: in kg/cu m

Sand, wet 1922

Sand, wet, packed 2082

Sand, dry 1602

Sand, loose 1442

Sand, rammed 1682

Sand, water filled 1922



So, as you can tell, sand is heavier for the same volume.

Answer 11

It does depend on the type of sand you have because there are different grain sizes. Finer sand may weigh more because you can pack a lot more of the fine particles of sand in a particular area than bigger grains. But if you try to see which is denser, the finer sand will float on the water while the bigger sand grains will sink. So sand can be either more or less denser than water. :-D

Answer 12

The key feature you need to see here is density. Some people confuse water as being more dense than sand. What fail to see is that sand it poris, allowing water to flow through it. In actuality if you can a sand column completely saturated with water, that water would begin to float on top of it while the sand stayed still. That tells you that sand it more dense than water, concluding that the mass of sand is greater than that of water. As mentioned before, get a cup of sand and a cup of water and hold each in the same hand. See which weighs more and that will give you a more physical understanding of the 2.



Hope this helps.

Answer 13

So is the best option to fill it with sand, pour water in it and shove it tight as possible with a stick?

Answer 14

This answer depends on how granular the sand is. Sand is not continuous like water and there are gaps between each sand particle. If you were to crush all sand into a solid, then it would be heavier but since there are large gaps between each particle of sand, water might be the way to go.



To answer your question, I would say water.

Answer 15

I really doesn't matter which weighs more, Which do you prefer, With the water there is a possibility for leakage, same with sand, but which is messier?

If it's weight that you need, why not combine the two, Wet sand should suffice.

Answer 16

Does sand float on top of the Sea? Or does water float on top of the Sand?

Answer 17

You are asking the wrong question.



Which is denser? And therefore will weigh more when filling the same volume.



Why not just disregard the notion, and if you are looking for more weight, fill it with mud (sand and water).

Answer 18

Sand is on the floor of the ocean correct? So sand must weigh more than water or it would float.

Answer 19

Water is heavier than sand. If you weigh 1 cup of sand vs one cup of water the water would weigh more. Also, sand floats in water so you know that sand is less dense!

Answer 20

a pound of water weighs the same as a pound of sand.

I would take a container and fill it up with water and measure it. Then I would take the same container and fill it up with sand and measure it. Both need to be measured on a scale.

Answer 21

sand

Answer 22

Here's a hint: sand sinks in water.

Answer 23

This is really funny!

If you fill the same 2 volumes with sand and with water, you can weigh them.........and have your answer.

Answer 24

well find which one is more dense the more dense one weighs more.



but 1lb of sand weighs the same as 1lb of water...if thats the scale your looking for

Answer 25

sand is more dense



so it would be more heavy

Answer 26

I guess sand.

Answer 27

water

Answer 28

it depends on the amount of sand you have and the amount of water you have.

Answer 29

i believe its sand, maybe, damn im not sure?

Answer 30

It all depends on how much you have of each.

Answer 31

water does, not poris

Answer 32

ME DNT NO