How heavy a litre of metal is
Density of the thirteen metals tracked as the weight of one litre: iridium is the heaviest at 22.56 kg per litre, aluminium the lightest at 2.7 kg — the same cube ten centimetres on a side, eight times the weight.
How heavy a litre of metal is
A cube ten centimetres on a side — one litre — weighs 2.7 kg in Aluminium and 22.6 kg in Iridium. The same box, 8.4 times the weight.
Figures per litre (equivalent to g/cm³) at room temperature. After osmium (22.59 kg per litre), iridium is the densest element there is — osmium is not exchange-traded and therefore not listed here.
Where the numbers come from
This chart shows physical properties of the metals. They do not change — a new measurement would produce the same values.
- material property Physical properties of the metals (density, melting point) — does not change
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