You are at an estate sale and trying to decide whether to bid on a gold pendant
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You are at an estate sale and trying to decide whether to bid on a gold pendant that is said to be 24-carat (pure) gold. The pendant looks like gold, but you would like to check. You are permitted to make some measurements, and collect the following data:
The pendant has a mass of 100 g in air and an apparent mass of 94.8 g when submerged in water. You know that the SG of 24-carat gold is 19.3, and the SG of 22-carat gold is 17.8; you decide to bid on anything that has SG > 19.0. Find the SG of the pendant, and decide whether you will bid.
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Engineering Fluid Mechanics
ISBN: 9781118880685
11th Edition
Authors: Donald F. Elger, Barbara A. LeBret, Clayton T. Crowe, John A. Robertson
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