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Old 09-27-2008, 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Av8rgirl View Post
If you want the exact answer, you need to know the ratio of salt to water. According to what I researched, salt water weighs ~64 lbs/cu. ft., and fresh water comes in at about 62.2 lbs/cu. ft. There are 7.4805 gallons in a cubic foot. So a gallon of salt water weighs 8.556 lbs.
I figured the salt water would weigh more b/c it is denser.

Years ago (before industry diluted it) you could float in the Great Salt Lake. There were picture postcards of people just sitting and reading the newspaper w/o a flotation device.

I suppose you could drown in the GSL, but there is absolutely no way to sink in it!


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