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Old 08-24-2006, 06:01 PM   #27
MaggieL
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Originally Posted by Elspode
I'm sure I missed physics that day, but...how the hell does something have a different weight depending on what the composition of the water is? A different buoyancy I can understand, but weight?
Possible that those numbers are in fact the displacement?
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