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Archimedes Balance
Based on Archimedes Principle, the balance consists of a graduated cylinder with an additional tube that floats in it.
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Diving Submarine
Powered by baking powder, this little submarine dives and surfaces just like a real submarine.
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Floating Yen Coins
These real Japanese 1 Yen coins are made from aluminum and can be made to float on the surface of a cup of water.
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Giant Pumice
The largest volcanic Pumice sample we have ever seen... and it still floats! Available in giant and melon-sized.
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Ironwood Samples (~ 135 g)
With a density approximately 1.28g/cc, this unusual wood sinks in water and makes a great density lesson.
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Lignum Vitae Wood Density Samples (~ 135 g)
One of the few species of wood that sink in water.
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New Style Galileo Thermometer
Most things float or sink! Ask students: How it is possible for the blue disk to remain in the middle of the liquid?
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Steel Sphere Density Kit
How are they the same? How are they different? One floats and one doesn't! Which is which?
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Tall Galileo Thermometer
Watch the glass spheres as they rise or sink when the temperature causes the density of the liquid to change.
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