Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
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Know what I think is awesome? How you can ask a question like this where there is an obvious majority answer and you get like 35 responses all saying the exact same thing. I mean, I could see if somebody had something to add other than the first 34 responses. \nSo anywho, after reading all the other answers, I am going to say they may weigh... the same?
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Throw a brick at the dish
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1 pound = 0.45359237 kilograms\n1 pound = 453.59237 grams\n\nGot this answer from a free unit converter.  Click on the link below to get it!
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both will have same weight mass
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Talk about kites and feathers.
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LB (or lb) is the abbreviation for the word pound.  It is the same unit of measurement.  1 kilogram = 2.20462262 pound
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reverie's wrong.  Most mass actually comes from kinetic energy, not rest mass.  you can correcly give energy (including heat energy) the same units as mass so it makes sense to say "one pound of heat"... but force is something different entirely.
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A (German) pound equals 500 grams. You are probably referring to the american pound (lb) which equals 453 grams.
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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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Density is a physical property of matter that describes the degree of compactness of a substance, in other words, closely packed together the atoms of an element or molecules of a compound are. The more closely packed together the individual particles of a substance are, the more dense that substance is. Since different substances have different densities, density measurements are a useful means for identifying substances. \n\nFor example, how could you distinguish a metric ton of feathers versus a metric ton of bricks if you could not see them? \n\n    \n\nOne metric ton of either feathers or bricks will have an identical mass of 1,000 kilograms (one metric ton). However, a metric ton of feathers will occupy a volume of almost 400 million cm3(about the size of four tractor trailer trucks), while a metric ton of bricks will occupy only one half million cm3 (about the size of a large screen TV). The bricks are denser than the feathers because their mass is packed into a smaller volume. This relationship between the mass and volume of a substance is what defines the physical property of density: \n\nDensity = Mass/Volume \n\nDensity is an intensive property of matter that is defined as the ratio of an objects mass to its volume. Mass is the amount of matter contained in an object and is commonly measured in units of grams (g). Volume is the amount of space taken up by a quantity of matter and is commonly expressed in cubic centimeters (cm3) or in milliliters (ml) (1cm3 = 1 ml). Therefore, common units used to express density are grams per milliliters (g/ml) and grams per cubic centimeter (g/cm3). \n\n\nLet's look at an example. A typical brick has a mass of 2,268 g and occupies a volume of 1,230 cm3. The density of the brick is therefore: \n\n\n\n2,268 g/1,230 cm3 = 1.84 g/cm3 \n\nDensity is an easy concept to confuse. For example, many items that we commonly think of as ‘light’ or ‘heavy’ do not have different masses, but they do have different densities. Look at the table below for examples of the densities of common substances.
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Elephant exerts 62.5 PSI (2000lb/32in^2)\nBus exerts 58.3 PSI (4200lb/72in^2)\n\nThe elephant!
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Seeing as feathers are less dense, I would prefer the feathers, since the weight would be spread out over a larger area--much larger than my toe in fact--so it would hurt less.
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rocks their more jaggedy, i know ur thinking they weigh the same, but a pound of rock is concentraded jaggedness, whilst feathers are all fluffy... so yeah rocks
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1 pound = 408.6  grams
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foot pounds, 1 foot pound is the amount of force it takes to move a mass of 1 pound a distance of one foot. A newton is the equivalent measure in the metrc system.
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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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Bricks are sized, in the first instance, by the size of the human hand and the strength of the arm. The bricklayer lifts a brick with one hand, so its width must be small enough to fit between thumb and fingers, somewhere around 4 inches. The length of the brick is then twice the width plus a slight allowance, because before the 20th century solid brick walls were at least two brick widths thick, with some bricks laid endwise and others crosswise to connect the two layers.\n\nA brick's weight is limited to what a man can lift easily with one hand, perhaps 12 pounds, though most bricks are half to three-quarters of that weight. Within the weight limit, depth is also limited by the properties of clay; thicker bricks are more difficult to dry and fire. Historically, depth has been the brick dimension that has varied the most.\n\nWithin these constraints, standard sizes for bricks have been set locally and nationally for several centuries, if not millenia.