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Old Jul 12, 2007 | 09:12 PM
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[quote="vroooom ptssssh"]
Originally Posted by tabetha
It also depends on the temperature of the water!!
1000 litres of hot water weighs less than 100 litres of cold water.
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not true! (apart from your are missing a zero!). pressure must be considered and if you started with 1000 litres of cold and heated it up it would expand so you would no longer have '1000 litres' but slightly more. the mass of the water would still be the same however
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