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(...) My guess is the technic beam would probably weigh slightly more. ROSCO (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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Nope, My scale shows: 1x16 regular brick: 6 grams 1x16 Technic beam: 5 grams Eric Harshbarger (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Amazing!(1) And quite counterintuitive, if you ask me. Volume and surface are not always tightly correlated but the Technic beam has lots more surface area. 1 - I'm assuming you actually weighed 50 of each and did the math or whatever. I have (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You can actually use nothing but LEGO bricks to answer the original question. Since the question was "Which weighs more?" I went on the assumption that he didn't care "how much does each beam weigh?" but rather which one is heavier as compared (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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Thanks Eric! :-) Dave "Eric Harshbarger" <eric@ericharshbarger.org> wrote in message news:HB7Es3.6z7@lugnet.com... (...) holes (...) to (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hmmm interesting. My conclusion from that would be that the "cylinder" containing the holes is significantly thinner than the brick walls. ROSCO (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Look a little bit harder. Note that the bottom studs, in a normal brick extending all the way up, are interupted by the pegholes in a technic brick. I estimate that the surface to subtract for the two holes in the brick wall and the surface to (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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