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Old 09-11-2010, 11:54   #37
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Re: Would a lead lined coffin float?

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Originally Posted by Less View Post
If a sealed balloon with some Liquid Nitrogen in it was placed on a scale and weighed say, 1g, although the Nitrogen would soon expand into a gas inflating the balloon, the scale would still register 1g.

So, as long as any gasses within the coffin didn't break the seal it too would still weigh the same.




Yeah, but my question was whether or not the resultant gas expansion would be sufficient to explode the coffin.
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