Baseball bats

[krw]

I guess that's true. They could make aluminum bats heavier, but don't (need to).

[Doug Brown]

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; some from here: am fully prepared to acknowledge I may have really messed up on the math but....

[cavelamb himself]

Does Ash float?

Aluminum doesn't...

[Doug Brown]

Duh! OK, but my ash doesn't float :).

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[cavelamb himself]

Well then, you might be in the ball park!

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[Doug Miller]

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

[Smaug Ichorfang]

[e-mail] (Doug Miller) wrote in news:JO2ek.13990$ [e-mail]:

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).