I guess that's true. They could make aluminum bats heavier, but don't (need to).
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Jul 06, 2008
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I'm not arguing, but is that true?
What I've found so far is that the density of Al is 0.098lb/in^3 (approx
1.56 oz/in^3 and that white ash is 41 lbs/ft^3, which should work out to about 0.379 oz/in^3, unless my math is completely f'd. I got some of the info from here;
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some from here:
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am fully prepared to acknowledge I may have really messed up on the math but....
Does Ash float?
Aluminum doesn't...
Duh! OK, but my ash doesn't float :).
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Well then, you might be in the ball park!
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Most woods float. Does aluminum?
Well, 1.56 is greater than 0.379, so I'd have to say aluminum is much denser than ash, by a factor of about four.
You made the math more complicated than it needed to be, but your results are correct: aluminum is much denser than ash.
Simpler version: Aluminum 0.098 lb/in^3 * 1728 in^3/ft^3 = 169 lb/ft^3 Ash 41 lb/ft^3
snipped-for-privacy@milmac.com (Doug Miller) wrote in news:JO2ek.13990$ snipped-for-privacy@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com:
Well, lignum vitae (ironwood) doesn't float. Neither does knobthorn or some of the rosewoods (Dalbergia sp.). There are a lot of woods that are so dense they don't float. Wikipedia says the density of lignum vitae is between 1.28 and 1.37 grams per cubic centimeter. Aluminum (from wikipedia) has a density of 2.70 gr/cc. Titanium = 4.5 gr/cc. Iron = 7.87 gr/cc. Lead = 11.34 gr/cc. Gold = 19.3 gr/cc Uranium = 19.1 gr/cc Balsa = 100-200 kg/cubic meter (you do the math).
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