Students will be able to explain that the density of a liquid has to do with how heavy it is for the sample size. Students will also be able to explain that if a liquid is more dense than water, it ...

The same mass of liquid will have slightly greater volume than the solid. As density equals \(\frac{\text{mass}}{\text{volume}}\), the liquid will have slightly lower density. The density of solid ...

Oil is more dense than alcohol, but less dense than water. The molecules that make up the oil are larger than those that that make up water, so they cannot pack as tightly together as the water ...

The difference is mostly due to the fact that air is a gas and the water is a liquid, because density depends a lot on the state of matter. In a solid, the particles are tightly packed ...