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Density Research Paper

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Density: the compactness of a substance. That is the first thing that came to mind when I saw that diet coke floated in water and the cherry coke that sank in water. My group members and I measured the density of all three substances (diet coke, cherry coke, and water) and collected the data to see if density really was the cause. Based on our results, it turns out density really is the reasons diet floats and cherry sinks. After we collected our data from the lab, we did many calculations and found that the diet coke average density was 0.950 g/ml, cherry coke was 1.0 g/ml, and water was 0.990 g/ml. Based on the universal definition of density, the mathematical reason why diet floats in water and cherry coke sinks is because the density of

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