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Answer That seems like a trick question to me! You could certainly gather enough feathers to equal the 'weight' of a rock. Weight is a measure of gravitational force on an object. The pull of gravity on a rock and a feather will be the same. In a vacuum, they will both fall at the same rate. They will both hit the bottom at the same time. Now of course, rocks feel heavier than feathers. But you could gather enough feathers so that a box of feathers feels just about as heavy as a rock. So which weighs more? Feathers or rocks? The question you should probably ask is which has more 'mass'. A measure of mass doesn't change with altitude, as does weight. Mass will be the same measurement for an object no matter where you take the measurement. And even better, you should probably ask which has the bigger density. Density is mass per volume. And then, of course, the answer is easy to give: rocks have a bigger density than feathers. Because if you take a box filled with rocks and a box filled with feathers, and if both boxes have the same size (the same volume) then the box with rocks is going to have the bigger mass.
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Do feathers weight more?
I would need more details to answer but if your asking about the common question, "What weighs more, an ounce of feathers, or an ounce of rocks?" then they are the same.
What weighs more 1000 feathers or 1000 pebbles?
Pebbles are heavier because they're rocks. Feathers are lightweight and fur.
What weighs more 2567 pounds of feathers or 2567 pounds of rocks?
They both weigh 2567 pounds.
What is heavier a ton or a ton?
They are equal. tw Which weighs more a ton of rocks or a tonne of feathers? They weigh the same!
Which weighs less a pound of feathers or a pound or rocks?
neither they both weigh a pound.
Brick or chesse of feathers which one weighs more?
One kilogram of brick weighs as much as one kilogram of feathers. (I do not know what a "chesse of feathers" is...)
Which weighs more concrete or feathers?
Concrete
What weighs more a bag of gold or a bag of feathers?
"Depends on how much gold and how many feathers you have. " I believe the riddle is usually "which weighs more - a pound of gold or a pound of feather?" The answer is that they weigh the same amount - they are both a pound. However, one cannot answer your question without further details since we clearly do not know how much of each object we have and how heavy it is.
What weighs more a ton of rocks or a ton of feathers?
A ton of rocks and a ton of feathers have precisely the same weight. Since their weights are the same, neither of them weighs more, and for the same reason, neither of them weighs less. If each of them were in a sealed carton, nothing you could do with a scale would tell you which carton holds which item, because a scale measures only weight and, as stated in the question and as we have already mentioned, each of these particular two items has the same weight.
Hat weighs more sugar or feathers?
1 lb of sugar weighs exactly the same as 1lb of feathers. a pound is a pound is a pound.
Which weighs more an ounce of gold or an ounce of feathers?
An ounce of Gold Weighs more. An ounce of gold weighs 2.7539537 grams more, than an ounce of feathers. Gold is weighed in Troy ounces and feathers are weighed in standard ounces. There are 31.1034768 grams in 1 Troy ounce and there are 28.3495231 grams in 1 standard ounce.
Which weighs more a pound brick or feathers?
They weigh the same.
