• tal@lemmy.today
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      12 days ago

      Water’s not compressible, so the density doesn’t change with depth. Either the bowling ball is denser than water or less dense than water.

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        11 days ago

        Water does change density with temperature, so it is denser the deeper you go. I doubt there’s a normal bowling ball weight that would have the right density for it to float at some random depth though.

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      11 days ago

      because water is fairly incompressible, the density of sea water doesn’t change much as you go down

      Therefore no there isn’t a depth where the weight of the seawater above compresses the water to a density equal to that of the bowling ball