Weight of beans vs concrete

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Hi

Long boring story short..... A fridge pack of heinz beans says 1kg on the label. If I eat the beans and pour some ready mix concrete in the empty tub, how much will it weigh?! How am I suppose to work it out without doing it?!

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zzr600

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You need to know the density of concrete, and the volume of the container.

The tub has a specific volume.
An easy way to measure the volume would be to fill it with water and weigh it. 1 kg of water = 1 litre (0.001 m^3) to a reasonable approximation.

Once you have that volume, you multiply it by the density of concrete.

Wikipedia tells me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_concrete

'The density of concrete varies, but is around 2,400 kg/m³'
Or 2.4kg per litre.

Put that way, a 2L bottle of coke would hold 4.8kg of concrete.

Thinking about it - it might be reasonable to assume beans are about as dense as water. A tin of beans weighs about 400g and it's about the same volume as a 330ml can of coke.

[Islander]

Concrete weighs 2400kg/m3. Work out the volume of the tub, do some division.

[carvell]

You need to know the density of both, https://www.aqua-calc.com/page/density-table will help you.

Work out the volume of beans that equates to 1kg, then work out how much the same volume in concrete weighs.

[edit] beaten...
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[Tristan.]

volume of a 410g tin of beans is apparently 0.043m^3 (you could work it out by measuring it to check) so that gives a relative density (assuming ~50g for the tin) of 0.84. The relative density of concrete is ~2.4. No point being precise given the amount of assumptions. Concrete is about 3 times as dense as beans, so it would weigh 3kg.

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This is all good but am I correct to base it on 1kg of beans and not 1kg of water, or is it 1kg volume regardless of what's in it?
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zzr600

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Cool, sounds like it might just do the trick then will try it friday and see what happens

Cheers people
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[Flatbadger]

What's the density of beans? Brilliant!

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