Which weighs more: a ton of feathers, or a ton of coal?
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a ton a coal of corse coal weighs more. it also matters wat kind of feathers
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Well, you are talking a volume compared to a weight.\n\nA gallon of water weighs 8 pounds.
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Giganotosaurus, in Argentina. They weighed two tons more than T rex. They hunted giant herbivores that weighed 92 tons, and were called....Argentinasaurus.
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The both weigh the same
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It's actually a metric tonne. Ton is the imperial measure. \nA metric tonne is 1,000 kg. or about 90% of a regular ton.\nA metric tonne is slightly larger than a short ton, which weighs only 2,000 pounds against the 2,240 lbs in a regular ton.
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Boilers, three or four pounds. Roosters, perhaps ten pounds is top and five or six is average. Been a long time for me, though, so I could be off.
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u've taken both the feathers nd the bricks as 1ton. the answer is in ur question only. both r 1ton tht is they r equal. the only difference v can make out is their quantity.
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scientifically, a ton of bricks. \ncos we use the term 'ton' or 'tonne' differently when measuring every other substance, and when measuring cotton or feathers (stuff used for making quilts, duvet, pillows etc). the weight system used to measure cotton or feathers is lighter than the metric tonne system. although a tonne would mean 1000 kgs, tonne was never a metric term. ideally, a classic tonne means 973.48 kgs, and to this day, this is the exact scale used to weigh stuff thats used in the clothing industry.\n\nHENCE, A TON OF FEATHER IS LIGHTER THAN A TONNE OF BRICKS!!!
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They are the same. A slug is a unit of mass.  It is defined as the mass which a pound of force would accelerate 1 ft per second^2.  In other words, it is equal to 1 lb/(ft/s^2)The reason it's sometimes called a g-pound is this.  The weight of an object, using Newton's second law, is Weight= mass x g, where g is the acceleration caused by gravity.  Thus, if you take the mass in slugs, and multiply it by g, which is about 32 ft/s^2, you get the weight, in pounds.  Hence the name g-pounds, or geepounds.\n\nThe metric system, either meter-kilogram-second or centimeter-gram-second, is so superior to this it's laughable.  Of course even the definition of pound and feet, which underlie the definitions of geepounds, are officially based on metric units.
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steam coal is a generic term for coal that is suitable for use in steam boilers.  That type of coal generally has a caloric value of from 12,000 to 16,000 btus per pound (.45 kg).   In general bituminous coal is used as steam coal.  It is a hard coal and has a high btu content per pound but not so high as anthracite.  Anthracite is normally not used as steam coal because it is not so plentiful. Only about 1% of coal is classified as anthracite. \n\n47% of the coal mined is classified as lignite and sub-bituminous coal.  These are sort of dirt that will burn, if you will pardon the expression.  They are also used in power plants, but contain much less energy per pound than steam coal. \n\nMetallurgical coal is very simial to steam coal but in general is a higher grade coal and sells for more money per ton.  It is coal that is suitable for making coke and PCI coal which is also used in making steel but is less suitable for making coke. Normally lower ash and sulfur content. \n\nCoal is taken from the mines in trainload quatities in coal cars and transported to the coal docks where the cars are dumped  onto a conveyor belt that transports the coal onto a dump tower above the ship's hold.  The ship is a bulk carrier and has basically an open cargo hold. The coal is bulk dumped into the hold.  When the ship is full, the conveyor belt stops and the ship sails to its destination where the coal is unloaded and conveyed by truck or rail to its final use.
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plush is more soft not quite furry more fuzzy\n\nfurry is not always soft longer fibers...
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Coal is actually very inefficient as an energy source.  One ton (2000 lbs or 1000 kg +/-) of coal produces the same amount of heat energy as 18,000 cubic feet of natural gas, 160 gallons (1100 lbs) of oil, or 5 ounces of uranium.  Also coal produces much more waste than any of the other energy sources.
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1.0 Ton = 12 MBH\n\nI would get a confirmation on this though.
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Coal is composed of highly compacted, dewatered, and dehydrogenated plant material (a process called coalification). The compaction ratio is typically about 20 to 1 for bituminous coals. That means twenty feet of plant material piled up to make one foot of coal. The question of where the mercury came from may still be unanswered, but one group of researchers have suggested that the mercury was absorbed by the ancient plants from the atmosphere and soil while they were living. There is evidence that modern plants have levels of mercury that correspond with the levels found in coal. Even though the mercury levels in coal are low at 0.17 +/- 0.17 ppm the process of burning coal consumes such large volumes of coal that the mercury becomes a serious problem in the emissions from large power plants.
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Gold is much heavier than fools gold.
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They weigh the same, but I'd rather be hit over the head with a pound of feathers than a pound of rocks :)
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The weight would be much greater than the original log, although mass is conserved.  The primary elements that are oxidized during burning are carbon and hydrogen.  Carbon combines with oxygen to form carbon dioxide.  This increases the mass by a factor of 3.7 because 2 oxygen atoms (atomic weight 16) are attached to each carbon (atomic weight 12).  The hydrogen burns to water (H2O) so 2 pounds of hydrogen produces 18 pounds of water vapor.\n\nIf you were to discount the mass of the oxygen then the mass of ash and gases would equal the mass of the log.  Be careful with the term "weigh".  You can't really weigh the gas because of its buoyancy in air but if you condsider the mass, all I said above is correct.