At room temperature (208C) and pressure, the density of air is 1.189 g/L. An object will float in air if its density is less tha
n that of air. In a buoyancy experiment with a new plastic, a chemist creates a rigid, thin-walled ball that weighs 0.12 g and has a volume of 560 cm⁹. (e) Will it float if filled with nitrogen (d = 1.165 g/L)?
The relationship between mass and volume can be easily determined using density; for example, the mass of a body is equal to its volume multiplied by the density (M = Vd), whereas the volume is equal to the mass divided by the density (V = M/d). The ball filled with nitrogen will not float in the air because total density of filled ball is greater than the density of an air. Density of the evacuated ball D = 0.214 g/L