How much does a litre of drink in a plastic bottle weigh

Moto2

DTDfanBoy wrote: »

But the C02 isn't in that state, it is in solution and under pressure.

The greater the pressure the denser, or heavier is becomes.

But nowhere near solid or even the weight of the water, weighing a fizzy drinks bottle before and after opening will make no significant difference.

Jamie_Carter

To answer the OP in simple terms, rather than getting all scientific:
1 litre of water = 1kg

Alcohol will be slightly lighter, but then there is the weight of the plastic bottle to take into account. So it is pretty safe to assume that a 1 litre plastic bottle of any drink, will be pretty close to 1kg in weight. Which is what the OP wanted to know.

Moto2

Jamie_Carter wrote: »

To answer the OP in simple terms, rather than getting all scientific:
1 litre of water = 1kg

Alcohol will be slightly lighter, but then there is the weight of the plastic bottle to take into account. So it is pretty safe to assume that a 1 litre plastic bottle of any drink, will be pretty close to 1kg in weight. Which is what the OP wanted to know.

Which was answered earlier in the thread

Prothet_of_Doom

1 Litre of Water weighs a Kg....I wonder how the metric system was invented?

The question remains whether the density of spirit is the same as water, but as you don't need accuracy, to the nearest gram, you need not worry.

Jamie_Carter

Moto2 wrote: »

Which was answered earlier in the thread

Yes I know, but with all the showing off about peoples scientific knowledge, the OP's question had been forgotten about. Or the couple of posts that actually answered the question could easily be missed.

Jamie_Carter

Prothet_of_Doom wrote: »

1 Litre of Water weighs a Kg....I wonder how the metric system was invented?

The question remains whether the density of spirit is the same as water, but as you don't need accuracy, to the nearest gram, you need not worry.

Alcohol is lighter than water, but I doubt the difference would be much more (if at all) than the weight of the plastic bottle.

So for the purposes of baggage weights on aircraft, it would be worth just regarding a 1 litre plastic bottle as being 1kg.

It is worth remembering that if the bottles have been purchased land side, then in most countries they will have to go in the hold baggage. And that only drinks purchased air side can be carried in hand baggage.

Moto2

Jamie_Carter wrote: »

Yes I know, but with all the showing off about peoples scientific knowledge, the OP's question had been forgotten about. Or the couple of posts that actually answered the question could easily be missed.

I don't think any of us have any scientific knowledge to speak of, let alone show off hence the discussion.
I'm not sure that I could show off on something I vaguely remember from the 70s.
Now if you wanted to talk about being condescending I'm sure you could trump all.

DTDfanBoy

Moto2 wrote: »

But nowhere near solid or even the weight of the water, weighing a fizzy drinks bottle before and after opening will make no significant difference.

I don't think you quite understand what a gas being in solution means.

If you did you would understand why the density of C02 at atmospheric pressure has nothing to do with the question which was asked.

" If it were lemonade would it be lighter 'cos it had bubbles of air in ? "

Your suggestion that "weighing a fizzy drinks bottle before and after opening will make no significant difference" also implies you don't understand the principles involved.

The fact that bottle will be lighter after the C02 comes out of solution, is very significant to the question at hand.

photome

to the OP

I answered your question in the first post:D

Not sure what happened to the thread after that :eek:

Alfrescodave

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Most entertaining - "was that sarcasm?"