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KILBOTz
04/08/21 11:15:42 PM
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You go to the craft store and buy an ounce of feathers and then go to the pawn shop and buy and ounce of silver and put them on a balance scale. Which is heavier?

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Xavier_On_High
04/08/21 11:16:56 PM
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Silver.

Because silver weighs more than feathers.

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SF_Okami
04/08/21 11:18:37 PM
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Xavier_On_High posted...
Silver.

Because silver weighs more than feathers.


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averagejoel
04/08/21 11:20:05 PM
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depends which ounce you mean

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apolloooo
04/08/21 11:21:14 PM
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feathers lighter than silver so silver

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KILBOTz
04/08/21 11:21:15 PM
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averagejoel posted...
depends which ounce you mean

The type I mean is "go to the craft store and buy an ounce of feathers and then go to the pawn shop and buy and ounce of silver"

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ledbowman
04/08/21 11:21:22 PM
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is this a trick

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KILBOTz
04/08/21 11:22:01 PM
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ledbowman posted...
is this a trick

eh more precious metal trivia than a trick

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ZeroX91
04/08/21 11:22:08 PM
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An ounce is an ounce...

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Arcanine2009
04/08/21 11:22:56 PM
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same weight. But silver is more dense and would sink in water

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ZeroX91
04/08/21 11:25:59 PM
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Why is this this close?

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bevan306
04/08/21 11:26:00 PM
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KILBOTz
04/08/21 11:31:25 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_weight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoirdupois_system

Precious metals are measured in troy ounces. If you buy a 1 oz silver coin you are getting 31.1 grams. If you buy an ounce of feathers you are getting 28.35 grams.

1 troy ounce = 1.097 avdp ounces

https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-medal-programs/american-eagle/silver-bullion

"Silver has historically been the most affordable precious metal. Since 1986, the United States has minted one-dollar silver coins called Silver Eagles. Each contains a minimum of one troy ounce of 99.9% pure silver."

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inTaCtfuL
04/08/21 11:34:31 PM
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Silver because it's more money. It's around 25 dollars

Ounce of feathers ain't worth shit

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bnui_ransder
04/08/21 11:37:39 PM
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That's a lot of feathers so you would have to either bundle them or put them into something. If both things weighed are exactly an ounce on your conventional weighing scale it would skew ever so slightly towards the feathers due to whatever is used to hold them together

Or you can use hidden rules and silver does

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awesome999
04/08/21 11:39:06 PM
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If you have an ounce mass of both of them in a cube and you held them at the same level and assume the feathers are kept in a massless vacuum sealed cubic container so that air can't fuck with your readings, the silver would weigh more because it's slightly closer to the earth, meaning it's closer to earth's gravitational field as described by Newton's law of gravitation and vector fields
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Complete_Idi0t
04/08/21 11:39:07 PM
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Silver is a color. It doesn't weigh anything.
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MrMallard
04/08/21 11:39:49 PM
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An ounce of feathers, since you need to carry the weight of what happened to those poor birds

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armandro
04/08/21 11:41:25 PM
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Depends on how you are weighing them
An underwater weighing test is the most accurate according to my Mom (she asked the doctor once)

And and the feathers can absorb the water and add weight to it
silver cannot absorb water

Easy riddle
anyone with the understanding of basic science can come to this conclusion

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AlisLandale
04/08/21 11:41:36 PM
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ledbowman
04/08/21 11:44:50 PM
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Complete_Idi0t posted...
Silver is a color. It doesn't weigh anything.
and what is also weightless

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bnui_ransder
04/08/21 11:46:23 PM
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ledbowman posted...
and what is also weightless
Not my mother

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AlisLandale
04/08/21 11:46:37 PM
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ledbowman posted...
and what is also weightless

Senjougahara

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KILBOTz
04/08/21 11:48:16 PM
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1 ounce of silver is heavier than 1 ounce of feathers, however 1 pound of silver weighs less than 1 pound of feathers.

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ledbowman
04/08/21 11:48:52 PM
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AlisLandale posted...
Senjougahara
therefore

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04/08/21 11:48:53 PM
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averagejoel
04/08/21 11:51:03 PM
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KILBOTz posted...
The type I mean is "go to the craft store and buy an ounce of feathers and then go to the pawn shop and buy and ounce of silver"
do you mean mass or volume?

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lydiaquayle
04/08/21 11:52:52 PM
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KILBOTz posted...
Precious metals are measured in troy ounces. If you buy a 1 oz silver coin you are getting 31.1 grams. If you buy an ounce of feathers you are getting 28.35 grams.

1 troy ounce = 1.097 avdp ounces
OP didn't say anything about troy ounces.

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KILBOTz
04/08/21 11:53:00 PM
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averagejoel posted...
do you mean mass or volume?

Mass. You put them on a scale and see which is more grams.

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hoggys2much
04/08/21 11:55:37 PM
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They are both the same.

This question is so old that the first single celled life form was telling it to the second single celled life form.

This is the same as ye olde "what weighs more a pund of feathers or a pound of lead"!

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KILBOTz
04/08/21 11:56:39 PM
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lydiaquayle posted...
OP didn't say anything about troy ounces.

Didn't have to, silver, when measured in ounces, is in troy ounces. If you google price of ounce of silver, that price is troy ounce. that is how silver is measured.

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OffTempo
04/08/21 11:58:03 PM
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They weigh the same

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KILBOTz
04/09/21 12:00:11 AM
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mattfrank
04/09/21 12:10:29 AM
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https://youtu.be/-fC2oke5MFg

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Tyranthraxus
04/09/21 12:12:08 AM
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The silver weighs more.

Because silver is so dense that an ounce of it is compacted into a smaller area and so when you apply the universal gravitational equation

g = G(m1m2)/r^2 the average r for all volume of the silver is smaller compared to the pile of feathers which could be several inches higher than the silver.

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Hipparmchia
04/09/21 12:12:13 AM
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KILBOTz posted...
eh more precious metal trivia than a trick
Yes, tc is being intentionally misleading in using two different units of measurement

Oh, I see he out and said it after your post

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lydiaquayle
04/09/21 6:21:43 AM
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KILBOTz posted...
Didn't have to, silver, when measured in ounces, is in troy ounces.
Then OP should've converted feathers into troy ounces. By referring feathers and silver using the same terminology, OP implies that the normal ounce terminology for both.

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lydiaquayle
04/09/21 6:22:52 AM
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OP should've stated--

What weighs more, an ounce of feathers, or a troy ounce of silver?

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Tappor
04/09/21 6:24:09 AM
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Xavier_On_High posted...
Silver.

Because silver weighs more than feathers.
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pinky0926
04/09/21 6:28:15 AM
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mattfrank posted...
https://youtu.be/-fC2oke5MFg

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AlisLandale
04/09/21 6:28:19 AM
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What weighs more? A troy ounce or a troy baker?

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scar the 1
04/09/21 6:32:53 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
The silver weighs more.

Because silver is so dense that an ounce of it is compacted into a smaller area and so when you apply the universal gravitational equation

g = G(m1m2)/r^2 the average r for all volume of the silver is smaller compared to the pile of feathers which could be several inches higher than the silver.
I like this answer but we are assuming that they are both at rest unrestricted which isn't always the case

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The_Korey
04/09/21 6:42:02 AM
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MrMallard posted...
An ounce of feathers, since you need to carry the weight of what happened to those poor birds


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Arcanine2009
04/09/21 10:05:29 PM
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KILBOTz posted...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_weight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoirdupois_system

Precious metals are measured in troy ounces. If you buy a 1 oz silver coin you are getting 31.1 grams. If you buy an ounce of feathers you are getting 28.35 grams.

1 troy ounce = 1.097 avdp ounces

https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-medal-programs/american-eagle/silver-bullion

"Silver has historically been the most affordable precious metal. Since 1986, the United States has minted one-dollar silver coins called Silver Eagles. Each contains a minimum of one troy ounce of 99.9% pure silver."
you didn't say troy initially tho

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DespondentDeity
04/09/21 10:07:59 PM
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Xavier_On_High posted...
Silver.

Because silver weighs more than feathers.



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KILBOTz
04/09/21 10:13:11 PM
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Arcanine2009 posted...
you didn't say troy initially tho

doesnt matter. Go anywhere that sells silver, ask for an ounce, it will be sold in Troy ounces.


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uwnim
04/09/21 10:14:36 PM
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lol, so many people here are getting upset about there being different ounces. TC doesn't have any need to specify the ounce used in the topic. That would defeat the entire purpose.

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BlackHorse6969
04/09/21 10:17:14 PM
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I picked silver to be funny but turned out to be right

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