It depends on the type of stainless. Different amounts of different alloys are used for different grades of stainless.
0.283 lb. per cubic inch
Stainless Steel 321 has density of 0.29 pounds per cubic inch, which is 8.0272 grams per cubic cm.
Steel is an alloy - a mixture of various metals - and so its density depends on the proportion of the constituents in the alloy. The weight (not mass) varies between 9.0 and 9.3 pounds weight per cubic inch.
Steel is typically 490 lb/cubic foot. There are 1,728 square inches in a cubic foot which means that each cubic inch weighs about .284 pounds (just a bit over a quarter of a pound per square inch).
TO answer this question, you need to know the density and the volume of the piece of steel. For example, "mild steel" weighs .284 pounds per cubic inch. The volume of a 12 inch x 12 inch x 1 inch piece of steel is 12 * 12 * 1 = 144 cubic inches. .284 pounds/inch^3 * 144 inch^3 = 40.896 pounds. So each of these steel tiles will weigh about 41 pounds.
If you mean a container with a volume of 1 cubic foot, then: 1/4 inch ball = 0.0082 cu. inch weigh of each ball (steel) = 0.0023 pounds approx. 73.6 balls per cubic inch (allowing for spherical interlocking) 1728 cubic inches ( one cubic foot) x 73.6 x 0.0023 = 292 pounds. So a cu. ft. container will hold close to 300 pounds of quarter inch steel balls.
Gray cast iron is around 118 grams per cubic inch.
0.28 lb/cubic inch
0.283 pounds per cubic inch
Steel is an alloy - a mixture of various metals - and so its density depends on the proportion of the constituents in the alloy. The weight (not mass) varies between 9.0 and 9.3 pounds weight per cubic inch.
Probably meant cubic inches... start with the density of stainless steel. Of course that depends on the consist of the steel... let's just use a nice round number like 8000 kg/cubic meter. Convert cubic meters into cubic inches using conversion factors: 8000 kg/m3 * (1/39.37 in/m) (1/39.37 in/m) (1/39.37 in/m) = 8000 kg/m3 * (1/61023.377953 in3/m3) ~ 0.131 kg/in3 That's the number of kilograms per cubic inch. To find the number of cubic inches per kilogram, merely invert: 1/0.131 kg/in3 ~ 7.628 in3/kg So, around 7.628 cubic inches are in 1 kilogram of stainless steel.
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