Sand weighs about 100 lbs per cubic foot. My bathtub's about 8
cubic feet. Better your calculator than mine.  :-)

Date sent:              Sat, 4 Dec 1999 11:48:06 -0600
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> I'm writing labels about parrotfish for an aquarium.   Parrotfish eat algae
> on rocks and corals.  To get at the algae, they chomp off bits of rock and
> coral.  Their digestive system grings these up into fine sand.  A single
> parrotfish can produce up to 500 kg. sand per year.
>
> I want to put that into human terms.  How many gallon milk jugs?  How many
> two-liter pop bottles?  How many bathtubs?  Something.  But I need to know
> how much volume 500 kg. of sand would take up.
>
> Can anyone give me the weight of sand for *any* volume -- cubic inch?
> cubic centimeter?  fluid ounce?  dry ounce?  Anything -- just give me the
> numbers, and I'll do the math.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Gene Dillenburg
> Lead Exhibit Developer
> Shedd Aquarium
>



Jim Kajpust - Personal Responsibility - Personal Freedoms
Michigan - http://www.concentric.net/~jkajpust

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