Glencoe Physical Science 2012 Student Edition (Glencoe Science) (McGraw-Hill Education)
Glencoe Physical Science 2012 Student Edition (Glencoe Science) (McGraw-Hill Education)
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Author: Charles William McLaughlin, Marilyn Thompson, Dinah Zike
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Chapter 14, Problem 17STP
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The reason why a penny sinks in a beaker of water but floats in a beaker of mercury.

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In general, the things that float on liquid are less dense than that liquid.

Penny sinks because the density of the penny is greater than that of the density of water. While penny floats on mercury because the density of the penny is lea than that of the density of mercury.

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Thus,this happens due to variations in densities.

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