Thursday, April 1, 2010

Why does an orange float with its peel but sink when the peel is removed?
The inside of the orange is denser than water and the inside is mostly water, dissolved in a lot of sugar and other flavourful compounds that are heavier than the water molecules that they displace. The orange peel has trapped air pockets, so it floats but when the peel is removed, it sinks.

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