Bulk Density of Common Materials
Common Material | Density (lb/ft3) From/To |
---|---|
ABS resin, pellet | 45 – |
Acetic acid, liquid | 66 – |
Acetone | 49 – |
Acrylic resin | 33 – |
Adipic acid, powder | 45 – |
Air – atmospheric pressure | 0.0749 |
Alcohol, methyl | 49 – |
Alfalfa, ground | 16 – |
Almonds, shelled | 30 – 35 |
Alum powder | 50 – |
Alumina | 60 – |
Aluminum hydrate | 18 – |
Aluminum oxide | 60 – 100 |
Aluminum silicate | 35 – 45 |
Aluminum, powder | 45 – 80 |
Aluminum, shavings | 7 – 15 |
Ammonium nitrate, prill | 45 – 60 |
Ammonium sulphate | 40 – 58 |
Apple seed | 32 – |
Asbestos fibers | 20 – 25 |
Ash, coal, damp | 45 – 50 |
Ash, coal, dry | 35 – 45 |
Asphalt, liquid | 65 – |
Aviation fuel (jp-4) | 49 – |
Bakalite, powder | 30 – 40 |
Baking powder | 40 – 45 |
Baking soda | 70 – 80 |
Ball clay | 25 – |
Bagasse – exiting the final mill | 7.5 – |
Bagasse – stacked to 2 metre height (moisture = 44%) | 11 – |
Bark, wood refuse | 10 – 20 |
Barley, flour | 25 – 30 |
Barley, ground | 25 – 30 |
Barley, kernal | 35 – 40 |
Barley, malted | 31 – |
Bauxite, crushed | 75 – 85 |
Beans, caster | 36 – |
Beans, coffee | 22 – 40 |
Beans, lima | 45 – |
Beans, navy | 48 – |
Beans, soy | 45 – 47 |
Bentonite, lump | 25 – 40 |
Bentonite, powder | 50 – 60 |
Bicarbonate of soda | 41 – |
Blood, dry | 35 – 45 |
Bone meal | 55 – 60 |
Borate of lime | 50 – 70 |
Borax | 50 – 70 |
Boric acid powder | 55 – |
Bran, oat | 25 – |
Bran, wheat | 15 – 20 |
Brewers grain | 27 – |
Brewers grits | 33 – |
Bronze chips | 30 – 50 |
Buckwheat | 34 – 42 |
Buckwheat flour | 40 – |
Butter | 54 – |
Buttermilk powder | 25 – 30 |
Cake mix | 30 – 40 |
Calcium carbide | 75 – |
Calcium carbonate | 75 – |
Calcium oxide | 27 – |
Cane – whole stick, tangled and tamped down as in a cane transport vehicle | 12.5 – |
Cane – whole stick, neatly bundled | 25 – |
Cane – billetted | 22 – |
Cane – whole stick tangled, but loosely tipped into cane carrier | 10 – |
Cane – knifed | 18 – |
Cane – shredded | 20 – |
Carbide powder | 100 – |
Carbon black powder | 4 – 25 |
Carbon black, pellet | 20 – 45 |
Carbon tetrachloride | – |
Carbon, granulated, activated | 50 – 60 |
Carbon, graphite | 40 – |
Casein powder | 35 – 40 |
Cashew nuts | 32 – 37 |
Caster beans | 36 – |
Cat food | 20 – 25 |
Cellophane, flocking | 5 – |
Cellulose acetate | 10 – |
Cellulose, flocking | 1.5 – 3 |
Cement powder, portland | 85 – 95 |
Cement, clinker | 75 – 90 |
Cereal flake | 12 – |
Chalk, fine | 70 – 75 |
Chalk, lump | 85 – 90 |
Charcoal | 15 – 30 |
Chromium ore | 135 – |
Cinders, coal | 40 – 50 |
Citric acid | 55 – |
Clay, attapulgus | 55 – |
Clay, ball | 25 – |
Clay, bentonite | 51 – |
Clay, calcined | 80 – |
Clay, dicalite | 20 – 50 |
Clay, kaoline | 20 – 60 |
Clay, sno-brite | 15 – 50 |
Clay, whitex | 15 – 50 |
Clinker, cement | 80 – |
Clinker, coal | 80 – 90 |
Coal, ground | 40 – |
Coal, lump | 45 – 55 |
Coconut, shredded | 20 – 22 |
Coffee bean, green | 32 – 45 |
Coffee bean, roasted | 22 – 30 |
Coffee, ground | 20 – |
Coke, calcined, petrol | 35 – 45 |
Copper ore | 135 – |
Concrete | 140 – 150 |
Copper oxide | 190 – |
Cork, ground | 5 – 15 |
Corn bran | 13 – |
Corn cob, ground | 35 – |
Corn, cracked | 35 – 40 |
Corn, flaked | 6 – |
Corn, gern | 21 – |
Corn, gluten | 26 – 33 |
Corn, grits | 40 – 45 |
Corn, ground | 30 – 35 |
Corn, meal | 32 – 40 |
Corn, starch | 25 – 35 |
Corn, sugar, liquid | 88 – |
Corn, sugar, powder | 31 – |
Corn, whole kernel | 45 – |
Cotton blossoms | 15 – 25 |
Cottonseed | 22 – 40 |
Cottonseed hulls | 12 – |
Cottonseed meats | 40 – |
Cottonseed oil | 58 – |
Cottonseed, meal | 35 – 40 |
Cream powder | 38 – |
Cullett, glass | 120 – |
Dextrin | 50 – 55 |
Dextrose | 31 – |
Diatomacaous earth | 11 – 14 |
Dicalcium phosphate | 43 – |
Diesel fuel | 52 – |
Dirt, dry | 65 – 80 |
Distillars grain | 30 – |
Dog food, IAMS minichunk | 26 – |
Dolomite, lump | 88 – 99 |
Dolomite, powdered | 45 – |
Down, goose | 1 – |
Ebonite, crushed | 65 – 70 |
Emery, crushed | 95 – |
Epsom salt | 40 – 50 |
Ethanol | 56 – |
Ethyl ether | 44 – |
Ethylene glycol | 70 – |
Expancel microsphere | 0.8 – |
Farina | 44 – |
Feathers, goose | 1 – |
Feed pellets, animal | 32 – 38 |
Feldspar, ground | 65 – 70 |
Ferrous sulphate | 50 – 75 |
Fertilizer, phosphate | 60 – |
Fish meal | 25 – 40 |
Flax seed | 40 – 45 |
Flour, barley | 25 – 30 |
Flour, corn | 30 – 34 |
Flour, patent | 20 – |
Flour, wheat | 30 – 35 |
Flourospar | 90 – |
Fluff, poly-fim floc | 1. 5 – 2 |
Fly ash | 35 – 45 |
Froot loops, kellogs | 8 – |
Fullers earth | 35 – 45 |
Gasoline | 45 – |
Gelatine, granulated | 32 – |
Gilsonite | 37 – |
Glass bead | 120 – |
Glass cullett crushed | 120 – |
Gluten, wheat | 30 – 35 |
Glycerine | 78 – |
Golf tees | 15 – |
Graphite, ground | 25 – 30 |
Grass seed | 10 – 35 |
Gravel | 75 – 85 |
Grits, corn | 40 – 45 |
Grits, rice | 42 – 45 |
Gun powder | 50 – |
Gypsum, lump | 90 – 100 |
Gypsum, powder | 60 – 80 |
Hay | 5 – 24 |
HDPE, polethylene | 35 – 40 |
Hominey | 37 – 50 |
Hops | 35 – |
Hops, spent dry | 35 – |
Hydrochloric acid | 75 – |
Ice, crushed | 55 – |
Illmenite, ground | 120 – |
Iron chips | 165 – |
Iron ore | 150 – |
Iron oxide | 180 – |
Jet fuel, jp4 | 51 – |
Kafir | 40 – 45 |
Kalsomine, powder | 32 – |
Kaoline, crushed | 20 – 22 |
Kerosene | 51 – |
Lactose | 32 – |
LDPE, polyethylene | 35 – |
Lead oxide | 30 – 150 |
Liginite | 40 – 55 |
Lima beans dry | 45 – |
Lime, hydreated | 25 – 30 |
Lime, pebble | 55 – 65 |
Lime, quicklime | 25 – 30 |
Lime, slaked | 32 – |
Limestone, crushed | 85 – 95 |
Limestone, dust | 68 – |
Linseed oil | 58 – |
Linseed, kernel | 25 – |
Maize, kernel | 45 – |
Malt sugar | 30 – 35 |
Malt, dry, whole | 30 – 35 |
Malt, ground, dry | 20 – |
Malt, spent, damp | 55 – 65 |
Malt, spent, dry | 10 – |
Maltodextrin powder | 35 – |
Maple syrup | 85 – |
Marble, crushed | 85 – 95 |
Menthol | 49 – |
Metal dust | 50 – 120 |
Methanol | 49 – |
Methyl alcohol | 49 – |
Mica | 13 – 30 |
Milk powder | 15 – 20 |
Milk sugar | 32 – |
Miller, ground | 35 – |
Millet seed | 48 – |
Mineral oil | 57 – |
Mineral spirits | 49 – |
Molybdenum, floc | 10 – 12 |
Monosodium phosphate | 50 – |
Muriate of potash | 77 – |
Mustard seed | 45 – |
Naphthalene | 56 – |
Napthalene flakes | 45 – |
Navy beans, dry | 48 – |
Nitrate of soda | 68 – |
Nitric acid | 94 – |
Nitrocellulose | 25 – |
Nylon | 35 – 45 |
Oat flour | 30 – 35 |
Oat hulls | 8 – 12 |
Oat meal | 35 – 40 |
Oat middlings | 35 – 45 |
Oats | 25 – 35 |
Oats, bran | 25 – |
Oats, ground | 25- 30 |
Oats, rolled | 24 – |
Octane | 45 – |
Oil, linseed | 58 – |
Oil, olive | 57 – |
Oil, petroleum, crude | 53 – |
Oil, sperm whale | 57 – |
Oil, transformer | 55 – |
Oil, turpentine | 54 – |
Oxalic acid, crystals | 60 – |
Oyster shells, ground | 53 – |
Paper, shreaded | 5 – 12 |
Paraffin wax | 45 – |
PC, polycarbonate | 34 – 36 |
Peanut shell refuse | 4 – |
Peanuts, shelled | 35 – 45 |
Peanuts, unshelled | 15 – 24 |
Peas, dry | 45 – 50 |
Peat | 25 – 50 |
Perlite, expanded | 3 – |
Perlite, expanded | 51 – |
Phosphate rock, crushed | 60 – 80 |
Phosphate sand | 90 – 100 |
Plaster of Paris | 50 – 55 |
Plastic pellet | 34 – 48 |
Ployethylene, pellet | 34 – 36 |
Ployvinyl chloride, powder | 30 – |
Polyethylene pellet | 35 – 37 |
Polypropylene powder | 25 – |
Polypropylene, pellet | 34 – 36 |
Polystyrene, expanded beads | 1.5 – |
Polystyrene, pellet | 34 – 36 |
Polyvinyl chloride, pellet | 48 – 52 |
Popcorn, popped | 2/3/2019 |
Popcorn, shelled | 45 – 50 |
Potash | 50 – 60 |
Potasium chloride | 2 – 3 |
Potassium carbonate | 45 – 50 |
Potassium chloride | 75 – |
Potassium nitrate | 76 – |
Potassium sulphate | 42 – 48 |
Potato flake | 12 – |
Potato starch | 40 – |
Pumice | 40 – 45 |
PVC polyvinyl chloride | 48 – 52 |
Quartz, sand | 80 – 100 |
Rape seed | 45 – 50 |
Rice | 45 – 50 |
Rice bran | 20 – |
Rice flour | 30 – |
Rice grits | 42 – 45 |
Rubber, ground | 25 – 50 |
Rye | 44 – |
Rye, flour | 30 – |
Salt, coarse crushed | 45 – 55 |
Salt, granulated | 70 – 80 |
Saltpeter | 75 – |
Sand, damp | 100 – |
Sand, dry | 80 – 100 |
Sand, loose | 90 – |
Sand with gravel, dry | 108 – |
Sand with gravel, wet | 125 – |
Sand, rammed | 105 – |
Sand, silica | 95 – |
Sand, water filled | 120 – |
Sand, wet | 120 – |
Sand, wet, packed | 130 – |
Sandstone, crushed | 80 – 95 |
Sawdust | 4 -12 |
Sea water | 64 – |
Semolina | 35 – 40 |
Sesame seed | 27 – 37 |
Shellac powder | 30 – 35 |
Silica flour | 35 – 40 |
Silica gel | 30 – 45 |
Silica sand | 95 – |
Slag, furnace | 60 – |
Slakes lime | 32 – |
Slate, crushed | 80 – 90 |
Soap powder | 20 – 25 |
Soda ash | 30 – 45 |
Sodium bicarbonate | 41 – |
Sodium chloride | 70 – |
Sodium hydroxide, flake | 47 – |
Sodium nitrate | 68 – 80 |
Sodium sulphate | 80 – |
Sorghum seed | 42 – 50 |
Soybean flour | 27 – 35 |
Soybean hulls | 6 – |
Soybean meal | 36 – 50 |
Soybean, flakes | 18 – 25 |
Soybean, whole | 47 – |
Soybeean, cracked | 35 – |
Spelt flour | 25 – 30 |
Starch powder | 25 – 35 |
Steel, chips | 150 – |
Sucrose – crystal | 99 – |
Sucrose – amorphous | 94 – |
Sugar, brown | 45 – |
Sugar, dextrose, powder | 50 – |
Sugar, granulated | 53 – |
Sugar, milk | 32 – |
Sugar, powdered | 50 – 60 |
Sugar, raw | 55 – 65 |
Sulfuric acid | 112 – |
Sulphur, crushed | 55 – 70 |
Sunflower seed | 36 – |
Talcum powder | 4 – 62 |
Tar | 72 – |
Tea leaves | 12 – |
Terephalic acid powder | 45 – |
Timothy seed | 36 – |
Tin oxide | 100 – |
Titanium dioxide | 40 – 50 |
Tobacco, flake | 2 – 5 |
Toulene | 54 – |
Transmission oil | 54 – |
Trisodium phosphate | 50 – 60 |
Urea, prill | 34 – 42 |
Vermiculite ore | 80 – |
Vermiculite, expanded | 17 – |
Walnut meats | 25 – |
Walnut shells, ground | 40 – 45 |
Water | 62 – |
Wax | 15 – 20 |
Wheat bran | 12 – |
Wheat gluten | 30 – 35 |
Wheat, craked | 35 – 45 |
Wheat, flaked | 7 – 10 |
Wheat, flour | 30 – 35 |
Wheat, ground | 40 – |
Wheat, whole kernel | 45 – 55 |
Whey powder | 35 – 46 |
Wood chips | 20 – 30 |
Wood flour | 15 – 25 |
Wood shavings | 3 – 10 |
Xanthum gum | 48 – |
Zinc ore | 125 – |
Zinc oxide | 10 – 30 |
Zinc, calcined, crushed | 70 – 90 |