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Re: Which weighs more?
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 4 Mar 2003 13:08:52 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.general, Eric Harshbarger writes:
> >
> > Nope,
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> > My scale shows:
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> > 1x16 regular brick: 6 grams
> > 1x16 Technic beam: 5 grams
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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.
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 to the other. (1)
So... build yourself a small balance out of LEGO bricks. And you will find
quite quickly and quite definitively that the non-Technic brick weighs more
than the Technic beam. The difference may be small (as noted above) but
it's certainly enough to tip the balance to the non-Technic brick every time.
> 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.
For my little experiment I used only one piece of each. However, as
mentioned it certainly seems to agree with the numbers found on the
electronic scale. Not to mention the fact that I don't have 50 16-stud long
beams in my entire collection. :)
An interesting question no matter how you look at it.
Regards,
Allan B.
(1) Using semantics not to be nit-picky but just to have some fun with this
little exercise. :)
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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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