Inquiry into Physics
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Author: Ostdiek
Publisher: Cengage
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Suppose you are in the International Space Station in orbit around Earth and a fellow astronaut gives you what appears to be an inflated balloon. Describe how you. could determine whether the balloon contains a gas, a liquid, or a solid.
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