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Re: Which weighs more?
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Date: 
Tue, 4 Mar 2003 04:17:48 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Eric Harshbarger writes:

Nope,

My scale shows:

1x16 regular brick: 6 grams
1x16 Technic beam:  5 grams

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 a great scale for weighing parcels, very accurate in its
range but very noisy down below 10g or so, so I always do the weigh multiple
thing.

++Lar



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  Re: Which weighs more?
 
(...) 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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  Re: Which weighs more?
 
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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