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[ Information | Background | The CyberTeaser | Quantum News | Miscellaneous Stuff ] Solution to CyberTeaser B183Attach the string with the weight to the scale and lower the weight slowly into each of the vessels. In pure kerosene, the reading on the scale won’t change as the weight goes down; but in the other vessel the reading will jump at the boundary between the two liquids: water is denser than kerosene, so the buoyant force increases abruptly at this point. CyberTeaser Archive
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